Jersey

Jersey

Jersey ranks 205th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guernsey, Aruba, and Marshall Islands. Memorable people born in present day Jersey include Wace, Henry Cavill, and Philip Carteret. Memorable people who died in Jersey include Gerald Durrell, Claude Cahun, and Félix Gaillard. Jersey has been the birth place of many writers, and actors and the death place of many social activists, and photographers.

Jersey, officially the Bailiwick of Jersey, is an autonomous and self-governing island territory of the British Islands. Although as a British Crown Dependency it is not a sovereign state, it has its own distinguishing civil and government institutions, so qualifies as a small nation or island country. Located in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of north-west France, it is the largest of the Channel Islands and is 14 miles (23 km) from Normandy's Cotentin Peninsula. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Read more on Wikipedia