Native name | Haerme |
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Conventional long name | Herm |
Common name | Herm |
Image coat | Blason Ile Herm.svg |
National motto | none |
National anthem | Sarnia Cherie (Guernsey) |
Official languages | English, French |
Government type | Dependency of Guernsey |
Leader title1 | Chief of state |
Leader name1 | Elizabeth II, Duke of Normandy |
Leader title2 | Lieutenant Governor |
Leader name2 | Peter Walker |
Leader title3 | Tenants |
Leader name3 | John and Julia Singer |
Sovereignty note | British crown dependency |
Area magnitude | 1 E8 |
Area km2 | 2 |
Area sq mi | 0.77 |
Percent water | negligible |
Population census | 60 |
Population census year | 2002 |
Population density km2 | 30 |
Population density sq mi | 77.7 |
Hdi | n/a |
Hdi rank | n/a |
Hdi year | n/a |
Hdi category | n/a |
Currency | Pound sterling1 |
Currency code | GBP |
Time zone | GMT |
Utc offset | +0 |
Time zone dst | WEST |
Utc offset dst | +1 |
Cctld | .gg (Guernsey) |
Footnote1 | The States of Guernsey, of which Herm is a dependency, issue their own sterling coins and banknotes (see Guernsey pound). }} |
Herm (Guernésiais: Haerme) is the smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public and is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Cars are banned from the small island just like its Channel Island neighbour, Sark. Unlike Sark, bicycles are also banned. However, Herm does allow quad bikes and tractors for the locals.
Herm won the 2002 and 2008 Britain in Bloom competition in the 'Small Coastal Resort' category, despite not being part of the UK (it is in the Bailiwick of Guernsey).
The most important moment in Herm's political history was 933, when the Channel Islands were annexed to the Duchy of Normandy (they remain a British Crown Dependency since the division of Normandy in 1204). After the annexation, Herm gradually lost its monastic inhabitants, and between 1570 and 1737 it was used as a hunting ground by the governors of Guernsey.
Between 1920 and 1923, the noted Scottish writer and founder of the Scottish National Party Compton Mackenzie was tenant of the island; among his best known works are The Monarch of the Glen and Whisky Galore.
Operation Huckaback
This British military operation was originally planned for the night of 9/10 February 1943 as a simultaneous raid on Herm, Jethou and Brecqhou to take prisoners and gain general information about the situation in the occupied Channel Islands. It was to be carried out by 42 men from the Small Scale Raiding Force and No. 4 Commando, but was cancelled because of bad weather.
Huckaback was reinvented as a raid on Herm alone on the night of 27/28 February 1943. Ten men of the Small Scale Raiding Force under Captain P. A. Porteous (VC) landed 200 yards to the north-west of Selle Rocque on a shingle beach and made three unsuccessful attempts to climb the cliff in front of them. Porteous finally managed to climb up the bed of a stream and pulled the others up with a rope.
On reaching Belvoir House, they found it broken into and abandoned. The Old Tower of Herm and the Chateau were also deserted. They later reported that they had found no sign of any Islanders or Germans (who were supposed to be billeted near the harbour).
The most influential tenant has been Major Peter Wood, who looked after the island from 1949 to 1980, after which Adrian and Pennie Wood Heyworth, took over. Major Wood died in 1998.
It was reported by BBC News and ITV Channel Television on 17 May 2008 that the tenants had put the remaining 40 years of their lease up for sale, with an asking price of £15,000,000. In September 2008 it was announced that Starboard Settlement, a trust, had acquired the remainder of the lease for considerably less than the asking price. The trust formed a Guernsey company, Herm Island Ltd, to manage the island for the trustees.
:"The origins of many of the place names in the island are obscure, as indeed is the name 'Herm' itself"
Over the years, there has been a steady Anglicisation of the island's nomenclature, and this erosion still occurs to a minor extent, in the replacement of authentic names, with new ones e.g. the northern tip of the island is properly called "La Pointe du gentilhomme" but is often referred to as "Alderney Point".
Fieldnames are generally in English, with the following exceptions - "Monku", "Belvoir", and "Bon Jour".
Remnants of Old Norse are scanty, but examples would be the second element of Pointe Sauzebourge on the south west tip of the island, while the rock of "Le Plat Houmet" contains the Houmet (holmr) with a Norman diminutive.
"Hermetier", a tidal islet just offshore, may be a corruption of the Norman for "Land of Herm".
Shell Beach and Belvoir Bay are two of the major tourist attractions.
The isle of Jethou is just to the south. It is said that in 709 AD a storm washed away the strip of land which connected the island with Herm.
To the west is the channel Little Roussel (Petit Ruau) between it and Guernsey, and the Big Roussel (Grand Ruau) to the east, between it and Sark.
Much of Herm's bedrock is granite.
Tourism is Herm's main source of income, with the majority of tourists arriving on one of the Trident catamaran ferries (Herm Trident V and Herm Trident VI) operated by the Trident Charter Company. On some busy days, the Herm Clipper is also called into service.
Money is also made from vegetable growing, livestock and occasionally issuing its own stamps.
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