Lihou

Lihou
	Lihou and the nearby L'Eree headland of Guernsey
	Lihou is on the far left of the map
Geography
Coordinates	49°27′40″N 2°40′04″W / 49.46111°N 2.66778°W
Archipelago	Channel Islands
Adjacent to	English Channel
Area	36 acres (15 ha)
Administration
	Bailiwick of Guernsey
Demographics
Population	1 (Warden)
Additional information
Official website	www.lihouisland.com
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Lihou Island and l'Erée Headland, Guernsey
Designated	1 March 2006
Reference no.	1608

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. Administratively, Lihou forms part of the Parish of St. Peter's in the Bailiwick of Guernsey,^[1] and is now owned by the parliament of Guernsey (the States of Guernsey), although there have been a number of owners in the past.^[4] Since 2006, the island has been jointly managed by the Guernsey Environment Department and the Lihou Charitable Trust. In the past the island was used by locals for the collection of seaweed for use as a fertiliser, but today Lihou is mainly used for tourism, including school trips. Lihou is also an important centre for conservation, forming part of a Ramsar wetland site for the preservation of rare birds and plants as well as historic ruins of a priory and a farmhouse.

^ ^a ^b Equivalent to 89 vergées, a local measure of area. See Guernsey Facts and Figures (PDF). States of Guernsey. 2006. p. 3. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
^ "The Channel Islands". Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2012 (144 ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. 2011. p. 314. ISBN 9781408142301.
^ "Lihou Island and l'Erée Headland, Guernsey". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
^ Cite error: The named reference lihouisland was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[booklet-1] Equivalent to 89 vergées, a local measure of area. See Guernsey Facts and Figures (PDF). States of Guernsey. 2006. p. 3. Retrieved 2 February 2014.

[2] "The Channel Islands". Whitaker's Concise Almanack 2012 (144 ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. 2011. p. 314. ISBN 9781408142301.

[3] "Lihou Island and l'Erée Headland, Guernsey". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

[lihouisland-4] Cite error: The named reference lihouisland was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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