[40] Jersey has one of the lowest voter turnouts internationally, with just 33% of the electorate voting in 2005, putting it well below the 77% European average for that year.[41]. There were about thirty casualties on each side, and the English took 600 French prisoners who were subsequently sent to England. The States of Jersey Fire Service was formed in 1938 when the States took over the Saint Helier Fire Brigade, which had been formed in 1901. The island is particularly famous for the Battle of Flowers, a carnival held annually since 1902.
2: The Bailiwick of Jersey by, The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe to the Mycenean Age, 1940, C. F. C. Hawkes. 19th-century improvements in transport links brought tourism to the island. The German blacklisting of the island had to be hastily revoked when this was pointed out. The Jersey curriculum follows that of England. Four species of small mammal are considered native:[116] the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), the Jersey bank vole (Myodes glareolus caesarius), the Lesser white-toothed shrew (Crocidura suaveolens) and the French shrew (Sorex coronatus). In 2015, Jersey's first ever national survey of religion found that two fifths of Jersey people have no religion, with only small handfuls of Jersey people belonging to the non-Christian religions. The established church is the Church of England, from 2015 under the See of Canterbury (previously under the Winchester diocese). [4] Jersey cattle are a small breed of cow widely known for its rich milk and cream; the quality of its meat is also appreciated on a small scale. Etymology: From a typical fisherman's sweater used on the island of Jersey. Jersey has one un-roofed skateboarding park. We do not have enough data to display the number of people who were given the name Jersey for each year. Its owners, however, struggled to meet tough competition from the Cineworld Cinemas group, which opened a 10 screen multiplex on the waterfront centre in St. Helier on reclaimed land in December 2002 and the Odeon closed its doors in late 2008. The Atlantic Ocean has a moderating effect on temperature in Jersey, as water has a much greater specific heat capacity than air and tends to heat and cool slowly throughout the year. The motto around the milled edge of Jersey pound coins is Insula Caesarea (Island of Jersey). A round-island swim is a major challenge that a select number of swimmers have achieved. © 2020 The Meaning Of The Name. Thanks to specialisation in a few high-return sectors, at purchasing power parity Jersey has high economic output per capita, substantially ahead of all of the world's large developed economies. The Jersey Football Combination has nine teams in its top division. Jersey's unicameral legislature is the States Assembly. [38] During this time the Germans constructed many fortifications using Soviet slave labour. [117], The red-billed chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax became extinct in Jersey around 1900, when changes in farming and grazing practices led to a decline in the coastal slope habitat required by this species. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems,[5] and the power of self-determination.