St Anne, Alderney
St Anne is the main town in Alderney, Channel Islands, and sometimes described as the capital. It takes up a large part of the island. Traditionally the centre was in the middle of the island, but it has expanded towards Braye Harbour.
Alderney Airport
Alderney Airport (IATA: ACI, ICAO: EGJA) is the only airport on the island of Alderney. Built in 1935, Alderney Airport was the first airport in the Channel Islands. Located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) southwest of St Anne, it is the closest Channel Island airport to the South coast of England and the coast of France and its facilities include a hangar, the Airport Fire Station and low cost, duty-free and tax-free Avgas refuelling. In 2008 the airport handled 77,104 passengers and 8,723 total movements. [2] A book is due to be released about the history of aviation in Alderney in mid-2010, in which the airport features heavily.
Lager Sylt
Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency Channel Islands, in operation between March 1943 and June 1944. The Germans built four concentration camps on the island, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany). Each subcamp was named after one of the Frisian Islands: Lager Norderney located at Saye, Lager Borkum at Platte Saline, Lager Sylt near the old telegraph tower at La Foulère and Lager Helgoland, situated in the northwest corner of the island. 700 people died in the Alderney concentration camps (out of a total inmate population of about 6,000). These were the only Nazi concentration camps on British soil.
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