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  1. Island and county in S England. area 380 sq
  2. km/147 sq mi towns Newport (administrative
  3. headquarters), resorts: Ryde, Sandown,
  4. Shanklin, Ventnor features the Needles, a
  5. group of pointed chalk rocks up to 30 m/100
  6. ft high in the sea to the W; the Solent, the
  7. sea channel between Hampshire and the island
  8. (including the anchorage of Spithead opposite
  9. Portsmouth, used for naval reviews); Cowes,
  10. venue of Regatta Week and headquarters of the
  11. Royal Yacht Squadron; Osborne House, near
  12. Cowes, a home of Queen Victoria, for whom it
  13. was built 1845; Farringford, home of
  14. Tennyson, near Freshwater products chiefly
  15. agricultural; tourism is important population
  16. (1987) 127,000 history called Vectis
  17. (`separate division') by the Romans, who
  18. conquered it AD 43. Charles I was imprisoned
  19. 1647-48 in Carisbrooke Castle, now ruined.
  20.