Archival and object evidence of the general evacuation in 1940 and the subsequent Occupation of Alderney can be found in the Alderney Society Museum.

He also became active in the local community becoming President of the newly founded Alresford Historical and Literary Society in 1966 until he relocated to Alderney 15 years later.

The museum is administered by the Alderney Society, which established it in 1966 with the purpose of creating " an organisation dedicated to the historical, environmental and scientific promotion of the Island of Alderney ".

Flint flakes have been found on the island, and one is currently in the Alderney Museum.

The principal hospital on Alderney is the Mignot Memorial Hospital, located in the northern part of St. Anne.

* Alderney society and museum – Geology

** Alderney, an annex of the concentration camp Neuengamme, is liberated.

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 ".

Unlike the largely autonomous islands of Sark and Alderney within the Bailiwick, Herm is administered entirely by the States of Guernsey, and elects members to the States of Deliberation as part of the St. Peter Port South electoral district.

The Wildlife Trusts is an organisation made up of 47 local Wildlife Trusts in the United Kingdom plus the Isle of Man and Alderney.

The Channel Islands were heavily fortified, particularly the island of Alderney which is closest to Britain.

Alderney (; ; Auregnais: Aoeur ' gny ) is the most northerly of the Channel Islands.

It is separated from Cap de la Hague by the dangerous Race of Alderney ( Le Raz Blanchard ).

The only parish of Alderney is the parish of St Anne, which covers the whole island.

Riduna may be the original name of Tatihou, while Alderney is conjectured to be identified with Sarnia.

Alderney / Aurigny is variously supposed to be a Germanic or Celtic name.

The States of Alderney is the legislature of the island ; it sends two representatives to the States of Guernsey as well.

The President of the States of Alderney is Stuart Trought.

Alderney is in the background.

Alderney is similar to the other Channel Islands in having sheer cliffs broken by stretches of sandy beach and dunes.

The geology of Alderney is mostly granites from the Precambrian period.

The Alderney Community and Sports Centre is currently planned, with building costing £ 2. 2m and starting in March 2012.

Due in part to the tourist industry but mainly to the Ridunians ' traditional taste for the grape and grain ( there is a common expression elsewhere in the Channel Islands that Alderney is composed of ' two thousand alcoholics, clinging to a rock ') there are many restaurants and public houses.

There is a vibrant and lively nightlife which is enjoyed by many especially in the summer, and informal dance music events often take place in abandoned bunkers (' bunker parties ') and more organised events in and around Alderney Week at the Corporation Quarry (' Quarry parties ').

Because it is quiet and secluded, Alderney has attracted some famous residents, including authors T. H. White ( The Once and Future King ) and Elisabeth Beresford ( The Wombles ), cricket commentator John Arlott, cricketer Sir Ian Botham, Beatles producer Sir George Martin, actress Dame Julie Andrews, and Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew.

Alderney Week is celebrated from the Saturday before the first Monday of August, when a number of events take place.

The Alderney Blowers give a full concert, and there is a car and bike show.

In the evening is the Extravaganza-a show of sketches and acts about Alderney, the theme, and inter-island competition.

Lager Borkum was located near the centre of Alderney and was the smallest of the four camps.

Lager Helgoland was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands, named after the Frisian Island of Heligoland ( in German, Helgoland ), formerly a Danish and then British possession located off the German North Sea coastline and belonging to Germany since 1890.

The Germans built four concentration camps on Alderney, subcamps of the Neuengamme concentration camp ( located in Hamburg, Germany ).

St Anne or Saint Anne is the capital and the main town of Alderney in the Channel Islands, located about 10 miles off the coast of Auderville in the Manche department of the Basse-Normandie region of north-western France.

Also known as the Alderney Harbour, it is located on the north side of the island at the mouth of the English Channel.

St Aldhelm's Academy ( formerly Rossmore Community College and Martin Kemp-Welch School ) is a 12 to 18 mixed academy school with Sports College status serving the Rossmore, Parkstone, Newtown, Wallisdown and Alderney areas of Poole, England.

It broadcasts from its studios at Broadcasting House in St Sampson's on 93. 2 MHz FM-VHF and 1116 kHz AM-MW in Guernsey and 99 MHz FM-VHF in Alderney.

The Mouriaux House was the residence of the first President of Alderney, Captain Sidney Herivel, from 1949 to 1970.

At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.

Lager Sylt, the concentration camp on Alderney was named after the island.

Lager Sylt, the Nazi concentration camp on Alderney was named after the island.

Slowly Lake Passaic drained and formed swamps in the township, such as Troy Meadows, and Lee Meadows on the old Alderney Farm tract are perfect examples.

The German garrison on Alderney did not surrender until 16 May.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visited Alderney on 9 August 1854.

On the return to their island, Alderney evacuees had little to no knowledge of the crimes committed on their island during the occupation as by December 1945, the first date civilians could return home, all the slave labourers had been sent away and the majority of the German troops left behind were not senior staff.

The Germans surrendered Alderney on May 16, 1945, eight days after the Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, and seven days after the liberation of Guernsey and Jersey.

2, 332 German prisoners of war were removed from Alderney on 20 May 1945, leaving 500 Germans to undertake clearing up operations under British military supervision.

After World War II, a court-martial case was prepared against ex-SS Hauptsturmführer Max List ( the former commandant of Lagers Norderney and Sylt ), citing atrocities on Alderney.

Resentment from the local population towards being unable to control their own land acted as a catalyst for the United Kingdom Home Office to set up an enquiry that led to the " Government of Alderney Law 1948 ", which came into force on 1 January 1949.

In return for providing the transferred services Guernsey levies various taxes and duties on Alderney.

In addition to the transferred services, both the UK and Guernsey may legislate on other matters with the consent of the States of Alderney.

Trees are rather scarce, as many were cut down in the 17th century to fuel the lighthouses on Alderney and the Casquets.

Puffins on Burhou and gannets on Les Étacs just off Alderney are a favourite of many visitors to the island.

The pure breed became extinct in 1944, but hybrids remain elsewhere, though no longer on Alderney.

There are treacherous tidal streams on either side of the island: the Swinge between Alderney and Burhou, just outside the harbour, and Le Raz between the island and the Normandy mainland.

The States of Alderney passed the anti-smoking legislation with the President's casting vote on 13 January 2010 ; the legislation came into force at 4am on 1 June 2010.

The under-16 talent show ( Alderney's Got Talent ) is held early on, followed by the Alderney X-Factor at 9 pm.

In April 2011, sculptor Andy Goldsworthy completed a project called Alderney Stones, commenced in 2008, in which 11 large dried-earth spheres were placed at different sites on the island.

The St John Alderney Ambulance Service operates the ambulance service on the island, and is staffed by volunteers.

* In the Rockstar Games game Grand Theft Auto IV set in Liberty City ( a fictional rendition of New York City ), there is an island by the name of Alderney which is based on New Jersey, as the two provinces are Channel Islands.

Secondly, there was a problem of connecting the islands to the rest of the ITV Network-the solution was to build a relay station on Alderney, the northern-most island, which would then send the network feed from Westward Television and occasionally Southern Television to Channel Television's studio in Jersey ; this was initially a problem, because the existence of the relay station meant that Alderney itself could not have a broadcast service from the start of broadcasting, and the local authorities refused to lease land to the ITA for the relay station.