Britain I. is a distribution area defined in the
Fauna Europaea database. It comprises the island of
Great Britain and all surrounding islands and island groups including
Orkney
Orkney (; sco, Orkney; on, Orkneyjar; nrn, Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of the island of Great Britain. Orkney is 10 miles (16 km) north ...
,
Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
The islands lie about to the no ...
, the Outer and Inner Hebrides,
Anglesey and the
Isles of Scilly
The Isles of Scilly (; kw, Syllan, ', or ) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in Britain, being over further south than the most southerly point of the ...
. The
Isle of Man is also included in the distribution area.
Fauna Europaea
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The following territories have their own defined distribution areas and are not included in Britain I.:
* Northern Ireland
* Republic of Ireland
* Channel Islands
References
External links
A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)
Fauna of Europe
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