Port Lihou Island or Yeta (Yœtha beard) is an island in the Torres Strait, in Queensland's north between the Australian mainland and Papua New Guinea....
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Lihou (/ˈliːuː/) is a small tidal island located just off the west coast of the island of Guernsey, in the English Channel, between Great Britain and France...
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Reef National Nature Reserve in the Australian Coral Sea Islands Territory Port Lihou Island in the Torres Straits between Australia and Papua New Guinea...
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following reefs or islands: Bougainville Reef East Diamond Islet Frederick Reefs Lihou Reef Saumarez Reef Willis Island, the only inhabited island, has a number...
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Strait Island Regional (entry 27246)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 November 2019. "Port Lihou Island – island in the Torres...
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Yeta may refer to: Yeta, an element of Argentine tango Port Lihou Island, or Yeta, an island in the Torres Strait Yeta I, High Chief of the Lozi people...
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Guernsey (redirect from Guernsey channel island)
Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited islands (Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Lihou, and Sark) and many small islets and rocks. The Bailiwick...
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Torres Strait (category Culture of the Torres Strait Islands)
trip, Lihou discovered the Lihou Reef and Cays and Port Lihou (originally named Port Yarborough, on the southern shore of Prince of Wales Island). The...
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St. Peter Port (French: Saint-Pierre Port) is a town and one of the ten parishes on the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It is the capital of...
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Adolphus Island Packe Island Port Lihou Island Possession Island Prince of Wales Island (Muralug) Thursday Island (Waibene) Turtle Head Island Wednesday...
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Kaurareg (section Torres Island historical context)
also known as Turtle Island) Yeta (Port Lihou Island) Zuna (Entrance Island) In 2001 a federal court ruled to return the seven islands to Kaurareg control...
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This is a list of islands within the Channel Islands in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy. This group of islands includes the Bailiwick of...
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Peter Port, Guernsey. The airline is wholly owned by the Healthspan Group. The company changed the trading name from Rockhopper to Blue Islands on 14...
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capitals, Saint Helier and Saint Peter Port, have populations of 33,500 and 18,207 respectively. "Channel Islands" is a geographical term, not a political...
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prepared to move from Hammond Island but wanted to be resettled at Port Lihou on the south east corner of Prince of Wales Island, which was part of their traditional...
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obviously some islands may extend over large areas. The list also contains some entries for places that are widely recognised as ports or harbours, yet...
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Granville, Manche (category Ports and harbours of the English Channel)
Graunville (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑɔ̃vil]). Cap Lihou is named from the Old Norse word holm meaning "island, islet" and which has in some cases evolved as...
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sculpture which celebrates the liberation of the island. The Liberation monument in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, is in the form of a monumental sundial...
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the island to be landlocked. As it is customary to list the parishes round the coast, either clockwise or anti-clockwise, starting with St Peter Port, St...
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Saumarez Reefs (category Coral Sea Islands)
discovered a shallow port on the south coast of Prince of Wales Island, named Port Yarborough by Lihou and subsequently named Port Lihou. After a hazardous...
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Football Club is a community football club located in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands. The club was formed in 2011 and became a member of the Combined...
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Peter Port. Lihou falls within the area of St Pierre du Bois. The population of and names of the parish are recorded in The History of the Island of Guernsey...
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Footes Lane (category Saint Peter Port)
is a multi-use sports stadium in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey and is the main sports venue on the island. It has a capacity of 5,000 with 720 seated. The...
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Guernsey is outside the United Kingdom and the European Union, and its islands have registration marks that are different from those used in the UK. The...
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Hauteville House (category Buildings and structures in Saint Peter Port)
floor featuring a glazed lookout with a view of Saint Peter Port, Herm and Sark, and the islands near them. The garden is filled with trees and flowers that...
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Saint Sampson, Guernsey (category Ports and harbours of Guernsey)
Guernsey, an island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, directly north of St Peter Port. It is on the north-west and north-east coasts of the island and is split...
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[citation needed] He married Blanche Henrietta Lihou, the daughter of Thomas Lihou of Union Street, St Peter Port, at St Martin's Church, Guernsey, on 11 April...
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BC. A number of sites show evidence of Mesolithic communities including Lihou and the Royal Hotel site in Guernsey and Les Landes, Jersey.: 50–54 4,500...
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Geology of Guernsey (category Geology of the Channel Islands)
present in the south of Guernsey may also be observed on Lihou Island. At the western coast of the island, a shear zone is exposed at the contact between the...
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Batterie Mirus (category Channel Islands articles missing geocoordinate data)
through the first half of 1942, and was the largest battery in the Channel Islands, the guns having a maximum range of 51 km. Although the guns were removed...
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