Located between the islands of Guernsey and Sark, Herm is 2.4km long and under 0.80km wide; orientated north-south. The first settlers arrived in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Many tombs from that period remain today, the majority in the north of the island. It was annexed to the Duchy of Normandy in 933, but returned to the English Crown in 1204. It was occupied by Germany in WWII and the scene of Operation Huckaback. Now it has 60 inhabitants.
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