Minquiers and Ecréhous
| Minquiers and Ecréhous | ||
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| Waters | English Channel | |
| archipelago | Channel Islands | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 58 ′ N , 2 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| Main island | Maitre Île | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Minquiers and Ecréhous are two groups of islands that make up the Channel Islands . They are located about 20 km south and 9 km northeast of the island of Jersey near the French coast. Some of these small islands have summer houses, others are just small rocks. The main island is Maitre Île in the Ecréhous. The Minquiers belong to the parish Grouville , Jersey, and the Ecréhous belong to St. Martin .
In the 18th and 19th centuries, stones were broken on the islands, with which, among other things, the Fort Regent on Jersey was built.
1953 saw the last dispute between France and Great Britain about national affiliation. The International Court of Justice in The Hague confirmed that it belonged to the British Channel Islands on November 17, 1953.
The author Hammond Innes wrote a novel ( The Wreck of the Mary Deare ) about these islands in 1956 , which was made into a film in 1959 under the title They do not fear death .
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- ↑ News in short , in Pforzheimer Zeitung of November 19, 1953, p. 2