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Six things you might like to know about Sark, a small island in the English Channel.

Until 2008, Sark was governed by a hereditary seigneur, a chief judge, a group of feudal landowners and 12 elected deputies
Following outside pressure, the island introduced an assembly of 28 elected members from 2008.
The resident population is 500, which more than doubles in the summer holiday season.
There are no cars or streetlights, with tractors and bicycles the preferred means of transport.
Sark has three pubs, one school and two volunteer police officers.
Andre Gardes, an unemployed nuclear physicist from France, attempted a one-man invasion of the island in 1990. He put up posters announcing his intention to take control of the island the next day, but while changing the magazine of his automatic rifle, he was arrested by a volunteer police constable.

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Petter 9 Aug 14
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Wowww that's a beautiful island. I love visiting islands. I've been to Bird Island (which is 19 ha) in Port Elizabeth (my hometown), Seal Island (between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth), Mauritius, 7 Greek Islands. ...still sooo many islands I'd still like to visit. There are other South African islands between Port Elizabeth and Cape Town which I haven't yet visited and there are some about 2000km away which only researchers are allowed to go to.

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[mentalfloss.com]

this is what I know of Sark! 😀

What a ripping yarn.

Worthy of a story in Girls' Own.

Makes me fell all sarky inside.
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I'm putting it on my bucket list. Is there a ferry service to the island?

Yes. From both Jersey and Guernsey. These in turn have regular ferry services from France (St Malo) and England (Portsmouth/Southampton)
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Long live the queen.

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And it is only two and one tenth square miles in area.

Giving a permanent population density pf roughly 238 people per square mile.

@Petter
A hopping community 😂🤣
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Islands and islanders, always just a little bit different. We have lived on 4 islands and are currently living on Howe Island in Canada.

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Cool

bobwjr Level 10 Aug 14, 2021
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Yay... great!
Gardes' impulse to overturn feudalism was continued by others.

Although his idea was to continue feudalism, but with himself as the Overlord, in the finest Feudal tradition of "right by conquest".

@Petter
My mistake... no no no 'right by conquest' overlord for me.

@AnonySchmoose Provided you can disarm the pretender in the way the volunteer policeman did! 🤣😂

@Petter
That could be an adventure 😁
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