Alderney

Alderney (; ; Auregnais: ) is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The island's area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around to the west of the town of La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, to the northeast of Guernsey and from the south coast of Great Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands both to France and to the United Kingdom. It is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Alderney Race. As of March 2021, the island had a population of 2,141; natives are traditionally nicknamed after the cows, or else after the many rabbits seen in the island. Formally, they are known as Ridunians, from the Latin . The only parish of Alderney is the parish of St Anne, which covers the whole island.