British Isles

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archipelago geographical region

The British Isles is a geographically defined archipelago off the northwestern coast of mainland Europe that includes Great Britain, Ireland, and numerous smaller surrounding islands.

Aliases (5)

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	archipelago → geographical region →
borderedBy	Atlantic Ocean → Celtic Sea → English Channel → North Sea →
climate	temperate oceanic climate →
containsCountry	Ireland (state) → United Kingdom →
containsDependency	Guernsey → Isle of Man → Jersey →
containsPartOf	England → Northern Ireland → Scotland → Wales →
continent	Europe →
geologicalFeature	continental shelf →
hasMajorIsland	Great Britain → Ireland → Isle of Man →
hasMajorIslandGroup	Hebrides → Orkney → Shetland →
hasPart	Anglesey → Arran → Channel Islands → English Channel islands → Firth of Clyde islands → Great Britain → Hebrides → Inner Hebrides → Ireland → Irish Sea islands → Islay → Isle of Barra → Isle of Coll → Isle of Jura → Isle of Lewis and Harris → Isle of Man → Isle of Man archipelago → Isle of Mull → Isle of Skye → Isle of Tiree → Isle of Wight → Isles of Scilly → Lindisfarne → Orkney → Orkney Islands → Outer Hebrides → Shetland → Shetland Islands → Western Isles →
highestPoint	Ben Nevis →
highestPointElevation	1345 metres →
largestIsland	Great Britain →
locatedIn	North Atlantic Ocean →
locatedNorthwestOf	mainland Europe →
locatedOffCoastOf	mainland Europe →
seaArea	Celtic Sea → English Channel → Irish Sea → North Sea → St George's Channel →
secondLargestIsland	Ireland →

Referenced by (88)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Act anent Peace and War 1703 → Acts of Union 1800 → Battle of Hastings → British Fantasy Award → Fidei Defensor → FitzRoy → Freesat → House of Dunkeld → Legislative Council of the Isle of Man → Montagu family → Norman Conquest of England → Princess of Ireland → Short Parliament → Sky Max → Sky Showcase → Westminster Assembly → Whitbread Novel Award ("United Kingdom and Ireland") →	region
Anglo-Saxon England → Anglo-Scottish Wars → Caledonian fault system → Chain Home Low → Clyde Islands → Furth → Irish Free State → Liverpool–Douglas ferry route → Scottish–Norwegian conflict over the Western Isles → Southern Scotland → States Assembly of Jersey →	locatedIn
Calf of Man → Cambrian Mountains → Channel Islands → England → Great Britain → Kingdom of England → Kingdom of Scotland → London → Lough Neagh → United Kingdom →	partOf
British–Irish Council → Edward James Harland & Company → Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland → Isle of Man Airport → RAF Bentley Priory →	regionServed
Bishops' Wars → Celtic languages → Lordship of Ireland → Truce of 11 July 1921 →	historicalRegion
Great Famine of 1315–1317 → Jacobite rising of 1745 → Jacobite risings →	location
Johnson → Thompson →	hasCulturalAssociation
Bronze Age → Iron Age →	occursIn
British Isles English → Norse →	spokenIn
Early Modern English → Royal Standard of the Kingdom of Ireland →	usedIn
Variscan orogeny →	affects
Parliament of Great Britain ("Great Britain") →	appliesToJurisdiction
Eurasian sparrowhawk →	distribution
Ulmus glabra →	distributionRegion
1755 Lisbon earthquake →	feltInRegion
DNB →	geographicCoverage
European American →	hasAncestralOrigin
Republic of Letters →	hasGeographicScope
Moore →	hasOrigin
Çhiarn Vannin →	hasRegionalContext
Ben Nevis →	highestPointOf
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ("Great Britain") →	includesTerritory
Atlantic world →	involvesRegion
Holyhead–Dublin ferry route ("Wales and Ireland") →	isMajorLinkBetween
Isle of Man →	isPartOf
Bloodless Revolution →	mainLocation
Christianization of the British Isles →	mainTerritory
Battle of Preston (1715) →	militaryTheater
15th Hussars →	operatedWithin
Royal Air Force Fighter Command →	operationalArea
No. 111 Squadron RAF ("British Isles airspace") →	operationalTheatre
Vikings →	raidedRegion
Heimskringla →	regionDescribed
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun →	regionOfActivity
Lindisfarne Gospels →	regionOfArt
Fid. Def. →	regionOfUse
Ivor Novello Award ("United Kingdom and Ireland") →	scope
Irish Sea ("island of Ireland") →	separates
Norse sagas →	settingLocation
RAF Home Commands →	theatreOfOperations