Braye Beach Hotel is a 4-star hotel, considered to be the best in Alderney.
During the summer a high-speed passenger ferry is operated from there to Alderney and Guernsey by Manche Iles Express.
Fort Tourgis is an extensive fortification in Alderney to the north west of St Anne.
Mignot Memorial Hospital is the principal hospital in Alderney, Channel Islands.
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One recent example included the June 2009 through December 2009 loan of pieces from the Alderney Elizabethan Shipwreck, such as cannonballs, breastplate, helmet, and tobacco pipes, to the Guernsey Museums & Galleries in Saint Peter Port, Guernsey.
The term survives in administrative usage in the British Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands, which for administrative purposes are grouped into the two bailiwicks of Jersey (comprising the island of Jersey and uninhabited islets such as the Minquiers and Écréhous) and Guernsey (comprising the islands of Guernsey, Sark, Alderney, Brecqhou, Herm, Jethou and Lihou).
Pannetier, in order to escape the pursuing allied fleet, sought to make the hazardous passage through the Alderney Race; in this he was helped by finding in his crew a local man, Hervé Riel, to act as pilot when his navigators demurred.
BNS Karatoa is an Island Class Offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy, built as the Royal Navy offshore patrol vessel, HMS Alderney (P278).
Fort Clonque is a 19th-century coastal fortress in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
Before coronal consonants, this produced Alderney, alter, bald, balderdash, bold, cold, false, falter, fold, gold, halt, hold, malt, molten, mould/mold, old, palsy, salt, shoulder (earlier sholder), smolder, told, Wald, Walter and wold (in the sense of "tract of land").
He was at the same time made Earl of Medina and Viscount Alderney, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Residents of Guernsey, Alderney, Herm or Jethou paying Social Security contributions are covered by the Specialist Health Insurance Scheme and so may receive specialist care and treatment free of charge at the hospital.
Rail transport in Alderney: discusses the railway in Alderney, in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, the only working railway in the Channel Islands.
Although set on a Scottish island, the movie was filmed on Jersey and at Fort Clonque on Alderney in the Channel Islands, with interiors filmed at MGM's British studios at Boreham Wood, Elstree.
The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.