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Alderney

• Alderney, with the neighbouring islands of Herm, Sark, Guernsey and Jethou, constitutes the administrative bailiwick/district of Guernsey, an autonomous and by the British crown adminstrated territory
• one of the Channel Islands (Norman Islands)
• own name in French: Aurigny

Contents

• Flags

• Meaning/Origin of the Flag

• Coat of Arms

• Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

• Maps

• Numbers and Facts

• History

Flags

since 1906,
Flag of Alderney,
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN), Denelson83,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons





since 2007,
Flag of the government (state flag),
ratio = 1:2,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN), World Statesmen

Meaning/Origin of the Flag

Alderney uses the flag of England, the red St. George's cross on white background, with the depction of the scutcheon of the island laid out in the centre. It is round with a golden border and shows a crowned, soaring, golden lion with red claws on green ground, holding a plant in his paw. In 2007, a Blue Ensign was also introduced. United Kingdom introduced a flag system in 1864 in which:
• war ships fly the "White Ensign" (naval flag), a white flag often with an uninterrupted red St. George's-Cross and with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag,
• merchant ships fly a "Red Ensign" (also named "Civil Ensign" => civil flag, the real merchant flag), a red flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag, and
• governmental ships fly the "Blue Ensign" (flag for the use by the gouvernment => the actual state flag), a blue flag with the Union Jack in the upper staff quadrant of the flag.
Since 1865, ships of regional or colonial governments, as well of offices and authorities, were allowed to use a Blue Ensign with a badge in the flying end.

Source: Wikipedia (EN), World Statesmen, Die Welt der Flaggen, Volker Preuß

Coat of Arms

Coat of arms of Alderney,
Source, by: Wikipedia (EN), Denelson83,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Meaning/Origin of the Coat of Arms

The coat of arms of Alderney shows a crowned, soaring, golden lion with red claws on green ground, holding a plant in his paw.

Source: Wikipedia (EN)

Maps

Location:

Source: CIA World Factbook

Map of the country:

Source: CIA World Factbook

Map of the Channel Islands:

Source: Hand-Atlas für die Geschichte des Mittelalters und die neueren Zeit, von Spruner und Menke
In the north Alderney, in the south Jersey, in the west Guernsey, eastern of it Herm and Sark.

Numbers and Facts

Area: 3 square miles

Inhabitants: 2.019 (2018)

Density of Population: 654 inh./sq.mi.

Capital: Saint Anne, 2.000 inh.

official Language: English

Currencies: 1 Alderney Pound (£) = 100 Pence, 1 Pound Sterling (£) = 100 Pence

Time Zone: Greenwich Meantime = CET – 1 h

Source: Wikipedia (DE)

History

ca. 600 B.C. · Celtic settlement

56 B.C. · to the Roman Empire

511 · to the Frankish Empire

843 · to the West Frankish Empire

880 · to the Kingdom of France

933 · to the Duchy of Normandy

1066 · William I. (Duke of the Normandy) gets crowned to the King of England, therewith come the Channel Islands nominally to the English crown

1106 · King Henry I. of England (son of William I.) occupies the Channel Islands, separates them therewith from the Duchy of Normandy, and binds them on England

1940–1945 · occupied by the German Empire

Translator of the English text: Joachim Nuthack

Source: Atlas zur Geschichte, Wikipedia (DE), Discovery '97