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Les Houmets

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Les Houmets are a group of tidal islands east of Guernsey in the Channel Islands, made up of several named islets including Houmet Benest, Houmet Paradis, and Houmet Hommetol. Their name comes from a diminutive of hou, a Norman and Guernesiais word for islets. The historian Victor Coysh disputed a claim by Victor Hugo that quarrying had significantly eroded the islands, arguing that old maps show they have been islets for a very long time. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: Les Houmets
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Houmets (Wikipedia)
Wikidata: Les Houmets
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