2024

WHITE-ISLAND (WHITE-ISLAND OR WHITE-ISLAND)

Site of archaeology crafts and science and technology

Philippe Pinel, a fisherman from Jersey, lived there for nearly fifty years from 1848. As the first sovereign of the Ecréhous, he received Queen Victoria as an equal and as a neighbour, during her stay in Jersey in 1857. He gave her, as a royal gift, one of the products of his kingdom: a basket made from dried seaweed. A pebble beach discovered at low tide allows to reach Marmotier. Blanche-Île is only inhabited during the summer season

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