Geographicals

Guernsey

The second largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. It covers about 30 square miles and is where the Guernsey breed of cattle originated. The name is Scandinavian, Grani's island (ey means island). (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p474 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p222)

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The second largest of the Channel Islands in the English Channel. It covers about 30 square miles and is where the Guernsey breed of cattle originated. The name is Scandinavian, Grani's island (ey means island). (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p474 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p222)

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  • Guernsey Island

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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one of the Channel Islands

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History Note

97; GUERNSEY ISLAND was see CHANNEL ISLANDS 1975-96

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  • Channel Islands (1967-1996)

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  1. Z01w.542w.363w.161w.500w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Guernsey. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019435. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019435
  2. Guernsey. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailiwick_of_Guernsey
  3. Guernsey. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25230