Talk:Minquiers

The Haroldseys - one of the main Minkies rock clusters...
Is not one of the main sea-rock clusters playfully nicknamed: The Haroldseys? The aforesaid being anent the Anglo-Saxon king Harold Godwinson whom fought and lost an eye whilst fighting the Normans. So Haroldseys/Haroldsey is both a play on an eye and also -ey (island) in placenames, topped-off with a hint of sea (-sey).

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The 1956 and 1959 book and film: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Why isn't "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" not listed anywhere in the article!? The film even goes out of it's way to say the word "Minkies" an handful of times. Most folk don't know that the Minquiers (British Minkies) stand in British waters some 20 miles further south off of the southern tip of Jersey. Sick of English-speaking wikis spiked and bent to flatter the NWO-backed makebelieve world of the insecure French and Francophones. Sigh.

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The British Minkies end at least 20 whole miles south of southernmost Jersey...
It slightly misreads:

"are a group of islands and rocks, about 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Jersey"

Think it is worth rewording the aforesaid, as the Minkies further-spread to end about 20 whole miles from the SOUTHERNMOST stand of Jersey island.

So annewed the foreshown wording to:

'are a group of islands and rocks starting about 15 km (9.3 mi) south of Jersey and ending some 20 miles from the southernmost end of Jersey'

Think it is worthy to set out the extent and nature of the Minkies spread. And that British waters further-spread at least another 20 whole miles south of southernmost Jersey.

If thereon dwelling sit then the said is an island not a reef.
Thank you to Bazonka for rightly highlighting that if there are buildings thereon then they are islands not reefs. I get the feeling the brooking of reef over island is to lessen the Britishness of the Minkies on behalf of NWO-backed French never-ending expansionism.

(cur | prev) 19:50, 24 August 2018‎ Bazonka (talk | contribs)‎. . (8,999 bytes) (+3)‎. . (Not really a reef) (undo) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.183.116 (talk)

Need to tweak wording to reflect that the French started the dispute anent the British Minkies (Minquiers)
French and Francophone annexation has been never-ending in Europe. Could it be reflected in the wording in the herein article that it was the French (serial expansionists) whom hungered for the Minkies and Ecrehou and therefore started the 'dispute' which (somehow despite the NWO always backing French expansionism and World Cup wins) Britain successfully defended against. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.0.183.116 (talk) 21:50, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Correction needed?
This statement: "A small company of Wehrmacht soldiers on the Minquiers were among the last to surrender in the Second World War. A French fishing boat, skippered by Lucian Marie, approached the island of Minquiers and anchored nearby. A fully armed German soldier approached and asked for help saying 'We've been forgotten by the British, perhaps no one on Jersey told them we were here, I want you to take us over to England, we want to surrender'. This was on 23 May 1945, three weeks after the war in Europe ended."

Might be correct for Europe, but the last Japanese soldier to surrender was Onoda Hirō, who surrendered in the Philippines in 1974. That's a tad later than 1945.

Joe Gerardi (talk) 15:39, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
 * "among the last" seems fine to me? Curb Safe Charmer (talk) 16:35, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

At low tide, the rock shelf around the Minquiers has a larger surface area than Jersey itself
This is at best misleading. Looking at Admiralty chart 2669, the land area at low tide is maybe seven miles long and three miles wide (at the longest/widest part of the main area). The article does say "the rock shelf", though, which may include areas always underwater. But it also says "at low tide": the size of this definition of a rock shelf would not change between low and high tide.

Update - I removed "At low tide, " for now. --BouleyBay (talk) 21:08, 29 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Unless you leave a link to your claimed citation your edits should be undone.
 * The following should be reinstated until then…
 * ”At low tide, the rock shelf around the Minquiers has a larger surface area than Jersey itself” 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:F017:CD70:97FD:7A89 (talk) 02:27, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * There is no citation for the original claim, so the statement should not be there until there is one. (The reference [4] is now broken link and was not a reliable source initially.) BouleyBay (talk)  — Preceding undated comment added 23:25, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

Is it worthy to byword that Google Maps refuse to mark a borderline between the Minkies and France
Indeed, are than any maps that show the national border line between the Minkie islands and France. Seems they for somewhy all censored. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:F017:CD70:97FD:7A89 (talk) 02:32, 1 January 2023 (UTC)


 * It is rare for maps to show any maritime borders. CMD (talk) 02:39, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
 * “It is Rare for maps to show maritime borders”
 * Are you on drugs? At least you have asidely confirmed that Google maps are willfully not showing the borderlines between the Channel Islands and France. 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:B9C5:EBE3:D19F:32C2 (talk) 22:30, 7 January 2023 (UTC)