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This is a map of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Alderney is in the North East.
The island has a population of 2,400 people, and they are traditionally nicknamed lapins after the number of rabbits seen on the island. The only parish of Alderney is the parish of St Anne, which doubles as the main town, and features a pretty church and cobbled high street. There is a primary school, a secondary school, a post office, hotels, restaurants, banks, shops, etc.
Alderney shares a history in common with the other Channel Islands. After choosing independence from France and loyalty to the English monarch (in its role as the Duke of Normandy) in the 1204, Alderney developed slowly and was not much involved with the rest of the world. That is, however, until the British government decided to undertake massive fortifications and to create a strategic harbour to deter attacks from France in the 19th centuryAlternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical ( 18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801- 1900. Events The Little Ice Age ended. An influx of English and IrishThe island of Ireland ire in Irish, Airlann in Ulster Scots) is the third-largest island in Europe. It lies on the west side of the Irish Sea, close to the island of Great Britain. It is composed of the Republic of Ireland in the south and Northern Irelan labourers, plus the sizable British garrison stationed in the island, led to rapid anglicization. The harbour was never completed - the remaining breakwater is one of the landmarks of the island.
When the advancing German army threatened in 1940Events January-February January 5 FM radio is demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. January 6 World War II: Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the Poznan, Warthegau. January 12 World War II: Russia bombs cities in Finland. February 2 F, the entire population was evacuated. The Germans occupied the island until liberation on 16 May 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II: (a week after the other Channel Islands), but the population were unable to start returning until December 1945. The Germans left their mark on Alderney, running the island as a concentration campA concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. The term refers to situations where the interne for the duration of the occupation, building bunkers and other such concrete fortifications. The resulting devastation meant that Guernsey took over some government functions from the States of Alderney to enable post-war reconstruction (in recent years this arrangement has sometimes led to tension between Alderney residents and the States of Guernsey).
The 20th century saw a lot of change in Alderney, from the building of the airport in the 1960s to the death of the last speakers of the island's language (a dialect of Norman language) some years earlier. The economy has gone from depending largely on agriculture to earning money from the tourism and finance industries.
The States of Alderney is the legislature of the island, and it has a voice in the States of Guernsey as well.