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The Isle of Wight is an English island and county, off the
southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire.
It is part of the United Kingdom.
Popular from Victorian times as a holiday resort, the Isle of
Wight is known for its natural beauty and as home to the Royal
Yacht Squadron at Cowes, a town that hosts a world famous annual
regatta. Colloquially, it is known as "The Island" by
its residents. It possesses a rich history including its own brief
status as a vassal kingdom in the fifteenth century, home to poet
Alfred Lord Tennyson and Queen Victoria's much loved summer residence
and final home Osborne House. Its maritime history encompasses
boat building and sail making through to the manufacture of flying
boats and the world's first hovercraft. It is home to the Isle
of Wight Festival, which, in 1970, was one of the largest rock
music events ever held, with estimates reaching 600,000 attendees,
overtaking the record set at Woodstock a year earlier. The Isle
of Wight Festival was revived in 2002 to critical acclaim, headliners
in 2006 were Coldplay, Foo Fighters and The Prodigy. The island
is also one of the richest fossil locations for dinosaurs in Europe.
In AD 686, it became the last part of the British Isles to convert
to Christianity - almost a century after Great Britain.
The isle is the smallest ceremonial county in England (when not
including Bristol or the City of London) at 380 km², just
beating the revived Rutland at 382 km². With just one Member
of Parliament and 132,731 permanent residents in the 2001 census,
it is also the most populated Parliamentary constituency in the
United Kingdom.
The Isle of Wight's county flower is the Pyramidal Orchid.
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Alum Bay, Arreton, Bembridge, Bonchurch, Brighstone, Calbourne,
Chale, Cowes, East Cowes, Egypt Point, Freshwater, Newbridge,
Newchurch, Newport, Niton, Northwood, Pondwell, Rookley, Ryde,
Sandown, Seaview, Shalfleet, Shanklin, Shorwell, St Catherine's
Down, Totland Bay, Ventnor, West Cowes, Whitecliff Bay, Wootton
Bridge, Wroxall, Yarmouth
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