"Luton from March 2017. In November 2015, the States of Guernsey agreed to recapitalise Aurigny's holding company, Cabernet Ltd, by paying off £25m of existing and expected debt. The airline signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the States of Guernsey and the States of Alderney, putting in place a system of communication between the three parties as well as a basic service level agreement, in February 2016. Cabernet Ltd is the 100% holding company for the Aurigny Group, which consists of Aurigny Air Services and Anglo Normandy Aero Engineering. The holding company is itself 100% owned by ""The States of"
"Auregnais Auregnais, Aoeur'gnaeux or Aurignais was the Norman dialect of the Channel Island of Alderney (, Auregnais: ""Aoeur'gny"" or ""Auregny""). It was closely related to the Guernésiais (Guernsey), Jèrriais (Jersey), Sercquiais (Sark) dialects of the neighbouring islands, as well as Continental Norman on the European mainland. The dialect became extinct in the 20th century. Only a few examples of Auregnais survive, mostly in place names in Alderney, and one audio recording is known to exist. Linguists have called the disappearance of Auregnais ""the worst documented case of recent language extinction."" The last known native speaker of Auregnais died around 1960."
"during working hours. Outside of normal hours transfer has to be with the RNLI The airline blamed a lack of staff, and The States of Guernsey says they are trying to work with Aurigny to address the issue. Aurigny Aurigny Air Services Limited (pronounced ), commonly known as Aurigny, is the flag carrier airline of the Bailiwick of Guernsey with its head office next to Guernsey Airport in the Channel Islands, and wholly owned by the States of Guernsey since nationalisation in 2003. It operates passenger and freight services between the Channel Islands, northern France, and the United Kingdom (as"
"his poem ""Les Casquets"" on the Houguez family who actually lived on the islands for 18 years. The Houguez family came from Alderney, and the evidence points to its members being Auregnais speakers – in fact the daughter married a man from Alderney. During this time, they were isolated and would have had few visitors, but would have spoken Auregnais most of the time. Auregnais Auregnais, Aoeur'gnaeux or Aurignais was the Norman dialect of the Channel Island of Alderney (, Auregnais: ""Aoeur'gny"" or ""Auregny""). It was closely related to the Guernésiais (Guernsey), Jèrriais (Jersey), Sercquiais (Sark) dialects of the neighbouring"
"Rongé Island Rongé Island or Curville Island or De Rongé Island or Isla Curville or Rouge Island is a high, rugged island long, the largest island of the group which forms the west side of Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Rongé Island is located at . Rongé Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) under Adrien de Gerlache who named it for Madame de Rongé (cousin of Johannes Ronge), a contributor to the expedition. Sherlac Point () is a point at the southeast end of the island first charted and named ""Cap"
"Rallier du Baty Peninsula The Rallier du Baty Peninsula ( or ""Presqu'ile Rallier du Baty"") is a peninsula of Grande Terre, the main island of the subantarctic Kerguelen archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean. It occupies the south-western corner of the island, and is about 35 km long, extending from north to south, and 25 km across at its widest. The 1,202 m high Bicorne rises in the southern coast of the peninsula. It is named for Raymond Rallier du Baty, a French sailor who charted the archipelago in the early 20th century. The Îles Boynes, France's southernmost land apart"
"Villegagnon Island Villegagnon Island (former Serigipe Island—original Portuguese: ""Ilha de Villegagnon""—also known in English as: Villegaignon Island, Island of Villegagnon or Island of Villegaignon) is located near the mouth of the large Guanabara Bay, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The island's name was given in honor of its first European occupier, the French admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, whose troops occupied the island in 1555, consequently building Fort Coligny on the island when attempting to establish the France Antarctique colony. With the arrival of more Portuguese troops from the São Vicente ""Capitania"" on March 15, 1560, Villegagnon"
"Alderney Alderney (; ; Auregnais: ""Aoeur'gny"") is the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. It is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown dependency. It is long and wide. The area is , making it the third-largest island of the Channel Islands, and the second largest in the Bailiwick. It is around from the west of La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy, in France, from the north-east of Guernsey and from the south coast of Great Britain. It is the closest of the Channel Islands to the United Kingdom. It is separated from Cap de la Hague"
"Réunion Réunion (, ; previously ""Île Bourbon"") is an overseas department and region of France and an island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius. , it had a population of 865,826. The island has been inhabited since the 16th century, when people from France and Madagascar settled there. Slavery was abolished on 20 December 1848 (a date celebrated yearly on the island), after which indentured workers were brought from South India, among other places. The island became an overseas department of France in 1946. As in France, the official language is French. In addition, the"
"Champagny Island Champagny Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Located on the western side of Camden Sound and part of the Champagny Islands group within the Bonaparte Archipelago, the island encompasses an area of . The traditional owners of the area are the Dambimangari peoples of the Worrorran languages group whose name for the island is ""Nimenba"". The island was named by Nicholas Baudin in 1801 after the French diplomat and statesman, Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, 1st duc de Cadore. Birds found on the island include the brown quail, eastern reef"
"ratified in 1687 and was renewed in 1698. Arguin remained a colony of Brandenburg until 1721 when the French successfully assaulted the fort and then took control of the island. The Dutch took the fort and island from the French the following year only to lose it again in 1724 to the French. This period of French rule lasted four years; in 1728, it reverted to the control of indigenous peoples. The island was included in the territory of the French colony of Mauritania, and it remained under Mauritanian rule when that country became independent in 1960. In July 1816,"
"Îles Leygues The Îles Leygues, or Leygues Islands, also sometimes known as the Îles Swain, comprise a group of small islands and islets that are part of the subantarctic Kerguelen archipelago, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean. They were named after Georges Leygues (1857-1933), a French politician and Minister of Marine. They are important as a breeding site for seabirds and fur seals. The Îles Leygues lie across the Passe de la Résolution from Île Howe, and north of the main Kerguelen island of Grande Terre. The two largest islands are Île de Castries and Île Dauphine. Île"
"Îles Nuageuses The Îles Nuageuses (Cloudy Islands in English) comprise a group of small islands that are part of the subantarctic Kerguelen archipelago, a French territory in the southern Indian Ocean. They are important as a breeding site for seabirds, especially penguins and albatrosses, and for fur seals. The islands are free of introduced species and are thus covered in dense subantarctic vegetation up to about 200 m. Human visitors are rare. The group is located in the northwestern area of the archipelago. It lies about north-west, across the Jean-Baptiste Charcot Channel, from the tip of the Loranchet Peninsula, the"
"northernmost extension of Grande Terre, the principal island of the Kerguelens. The islands are of volcanic origin. The main islands of the Nuageuses are Île de Croÿ, Île du Roland, Île d’Après and the Îles Ternay, with the small Île Clugny some to the south of the others. Far to the north lies the Îlot du Rendez-vous. The highest point in the group is just over 500 m above sea level and the coastlines are mainly sheer cliffs. The îles Nuageuses were first sighted during Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec second expedition in 1773. They were so named after"
"links to many parts of the United Kingdom and Europe. Aurigny serves the island with Dornier Do 228s. Boats sail regularly between the island and France, and to the other Channel Islands. A high-speed passenger ferry is operated in summer to Diélette in the commune of Flamanville, Manche in France, and to St Peter Port, Guernsey. Weekly freight services, also carrying passengers, link Poole and St Peter Port. A 12-passenger boat operates services to Cherbourg, Sark and St Peter Port. Alderney is from St Malo and from Poole. There are boat trips, water-taxi services and water and fuel access to"
"the following century. Since 1938, the island has been the home of the Brazilian Naval School, under the responsibility of the Brazilian Navy. Villegagnon Island Villegagnon Island (former Serigipe Island—original Portuguese: ""Ilha de Villegagnon""—also known in English as: Villegaignon Island, Island of Villegagnon or Island of Villegaignon) is located near the mouth of the large Guanabara Bay, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The island's name was given in honor of its first European occupier, the French admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, whose troops occupied the island in 1555, consequently building Fort Coligny on the island when attempting"
"Île Sainte-Marguerite The Île Sainte-Marguerite () is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes. The island is approximately in length (East to West) and across. The island is most famous for its fortress prison (the ""Fort Royal""), in which the so-called Man in the Iron Mask was held in the 17th century. The island is first known to have been inhabited during Roman times, when it was known by the name ""Lero"". The island was probably renamed in medieval times by crusaders, who built a chapel to Saint"
"survey by market researchers islandopinion.com showed that Aurigny was the most popular airline which served Guernsey. On 21 June 2007, Aurigny got permission from its sole shareholder, the States of Guernsey, to raise a private loan to purchase two new ATR 72-500 aircraft which entered service in March 2009. Aurigny celebrated 40 years in operation in 2008. It was voted 4th-best short-haul airline in a poll published in the consumer magazine ""Which?"". In a survey of 30,000 members the magazine examined 71 airlines and asked readers to rate each carrier for standards of check-in, cabin staff, cleanliness, food and entertainment."
"a number of tiny islets, and is split into two island groups that lie about apart, namely the Wallis Islands (Uvea) in the northeast, and the Hoorn Islands (also known as the Futuna Islands) in the southwest, including Futuna Island proper and the mostly uninhabited Alofi Island. Since 2003, Wallis and Futuna has been a French overseas collectivity (""collectivité d'outre-mer"", or ""COM""). Between 1961 and 2003, it had the status of a French overseas territory (""territoire d'outre-mer"", or ""TOM""), though its official name did not change when the status changed. Polynesians settled the islands that would later be called Wallis"
"Gourdin Island Gourdin Island is the largest island (124 ha) in a group of islands and rocks north of Prime Head, the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Ensign Jean Gourdin of the expedition ship ""Astrolabe"". The island was reidentified and charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945–47. The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a large breeding colony of about 14,000 pairs of Adélie penguins, as well as over"
"Carrel Island Carrel Island, also known as Le Mauguen Island, is a small, rocky island 400 m long lying 200 m south of Petrel Island in the Géologie Archipelago of Antarctica. It was charted in 1950 by the French Antarctic Expedition and named by them for Alexis Carrel, noted French surgeon and physiologist. A site cluster in the heart of the Géologie Archipelago, south and east, and in the immediate vicinity, of Petrel Island and Dumont d'Urville Station, comprises Carrel, Jean Rostand, Claude Bernard and Lamarck Islands, Bon Docteur Nunatak, and a breeding site of emperor penguins on the intervening"
"Fort Coligny Fort Coligny was a fortress founded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1555, in what constituted the so-called France Antarctique historical episode. For protection against attacks by hostile Indians and the Portuguese, Villegaignon built the fortress with the help of the 500 colonists who travelled with him in two ships armed by the king of France, on a small island called Serigipe by the Indians of the region, near the mouth of the large Guanabara Bay. The island was rocky and almost barren, but served Villegaignon's purpose of being near the shore, at"
"soldiers and colonists, and took possession of the small island of Serigipe in the Guanabara Bay, in front of present-day Rio de Janeiro, where they built a fort named Fort Coligny. The fort was named in honor of Gaspard de Coligny (then a Catholic statesman, that about a year later would become a Huguenot), an admiral who supported the expedition and would later use the colony in order to protect his Reformed co-religionists. To the still largely undeveloped mainland village, Villegaignon gave the name of Henriville, in honour of Henry II, the King of France, who also knew of and"
"Île aux Cygnes Île aux Cygnes (; ) is a small artificial island on the river Seine in Paris, France, in the 15th arrondissement. It was created in 1827 to protect the bridge named the pont de Grenelle. It should not be confused with an earlier Île des Cygnes that was attached to the Champ de Mars in the late 18th century. The uninhabited island is 850 metres (2,789 ft) long and 11 metres (36 ft) at its widest point, making it the third-largest island in Paris. A tree-lined walkway, named L'Allée des Cygnes (Path of Swans), runs the length"
"subdivision is Tupua'i. Austral Islands The Tuha'a Pae, or Austral Islands ( or '), are the southernmost group of islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the South Pacific. Geographically, they consist of two separate archipelagos, namely in the northwest the Tupua'i islands () consisting of the Îles Maria, Rimatara, Rūrutu, Tupua'i Island proper and Ra'ivāvae, and in the southeast the Bass Islands () composed of the main island of Rapa Iti and the small Marotiri (also known as Bass Rocks or Îlots de Bass). Inhabitants of the islands are known for their pandanus fiber weaving skills."
"entire island was purchased in 1912 by François Joseph Fournier, apparently as a wedding present for his wife; he planted of vineyards which produced a wine that was among the first to be classified as ""vin des Côtes de Provence"". In 1971 the state bought 80 percent of the island to preserve it from development. Much of the island is now part of a national park (the ""Port-Cros Parc National"") and nature conservation area (""Conservatoire botanique national méditerranéen de Porquerolles""). It is the setting for Georges Simenon's novels, ""Le Cercle de Mahe"" (""The Mahe Circle"") (1946) and ""Mon Ami Maigret"""
"its transition from a local carrier to a regional airline. Ownership of the airline passed from Aurigny Aviation Holdings to Close Brothers Private Equity on 23 May 2000, but was wholly acquired by States of Guernsey on 15 May 2003, after British Airways announced that it was to cease flying on the London Gatwick–Guernsey route (just two months before the Island Games). It employs 300 staff in the Channel Islands, France and the United Kingdom. Aurigny also operates charter services, and is a handling agent for various other airlines which fly into Guernsey, including Blue Islands. In June 2006, a"
"island is served all year round by a regular commercial ferry service from Cannes. Île Sainte-Marguerite The Île Sainte-Marguerite () is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes. The island is approximately in length (East to West) and across. The island is most famous for its fortress prison (the ""Fort Royal""), in which the so-called Man in the Iron Mask was held in the 17th century. The island is first known to have been inhabited during Roman times, when it was known by the name ""Lero"". The island"
"Sieur de Périgny as part of Champlain's ""New France"". D'Ailleboust did not take possession of it, and it reverted to the French Crown, in whose possession it remained until 1713, when it was traded to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht. Despite earlier exploration and trade activity, the first permanent settlement of Grand Manan was not established until 1784, when Moses Gerrish gathered a group of settlers on an area of Grand Manan he called Ross Island, in honour of settler Thomas Ross. By this time, the United States had formed. Because of the Treaty of Paris (1783), the"
"Île d'Or The île d'Or is a private island located at the east of the city of Saint-Raphaël in France, facing the Dramon cap. This small island is composed of porphyry (russet rocks) and surmounted by a tower reminiscent of the Middle Ages said to have been the inspiration for The Black Island in Hergé's ""The Adventures of Tintin"" series. Viewed from the sea from the left side of the tower, a rock, commonly thought to resemble the profile of a gorilla, also recalls the comic books of Hergé. The îles d'Hyères, in the same region, are also called ""the"
"Oderin Island (Newfoundland and Labrador) Oderin Island is an island in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador in western Placentia Bay, located about 30 km northeast of Marystown. Oderin was originally settled by the French who considered it an important fishing post and had fortified it against the English. The name was originally Audierne, named after a town in France. In 1712, the French authorities in Placentia ordered all the buildings and fishing premises to be burned or destroyed, in part to deny to English the use of the site but also as retribution against the local French merchant Lafosse"
"Charles"" by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. To avoid confusion with Charles Point in Hughes Bay, an anagram of the name was adopted by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960. Rongé Island Rongé Island or Curville Island or De Rongé Island or Isla Curville or Rouge Island is a high, rugged island long, the largest island of the group which forms the west side of Errera Channel, off the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Rongé Island is located at . Rongé Island was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (1897–1899) under Adrien de"
"the Swinge. The geology of Alderney is mostly granites from the Precambrian period. The language of the island is now English with a few minor variants, forming Channel Island English. For centuries the island had its own dialect of the Norman language called Auregnais, now extinct. It was primarily a spoken language, with only a few known poems and written works using it. French was once widely used on the island, and increasingly replaced Auregnais since the late 19th century, but ceased to be an official language there in 1966. French declined partly because of the many English and Irish"