What is "isle of wight"

The Isle of Wight is a county and the largest and second most populous island in England. It is located in the English Channel, about off the coast of Hampshire, separated from the mainland by the Solent. The island has several resorts that have been holiday destinations since Victorian times.

Until 1995, like Jersey and Guernsey, the island had a governor.

Home to the poets Swinburne and Tennyson and to Queen Victoria, who built her much-loved summer residence and final home Osborne House at East Cowes, the island has a maritime and industrial tradition including boat building, sail making, the manufacture of flying boats, the world's first hovercraft, and the testing and development of Britain's space rockets. The island hosts annual festivals including the Bestival and the Isle of Wight Festival, which, in 1970, was the largest rock music event ever held. The island has well-conserved wildlife and some of the richest cliffs and quarries for dinosaur fossils in Europe.

The Isle of Wight was owned by a Norman family until 1293 and was earlier a kingdom in its own right. It was part of Hampshire until 1890 when it became an independent administrative county. It shared a Lord Lieutenant with Hampshire until 1974, when it was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan ceremonial county, giving it its own Lord Lieutenant. Apart from a shared police force, there is now no formal administrative link between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire. In the 1970s, there was a political movement seeking the status of Crown Dependency.

The quickest public transport link to the mainland is to and from Southsea ( Portsmouth) by hovercraft, while five ferry services shuttle across the Solent from Southampton, Lymington and Portsmouth.

Isle of Wight is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2001 by Andrew Turner of the Conservative Party.

Created by the Great Reform Act for the 1832 general election it covers the whole of the Isle of Wight and has had the largest electorate in all elections from 1983 onwards.

The Isle of Wight is an island and ceremonial county in England.

It may also refer to:

In England:

• Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)
• The unitary authority region covered by the Isle of Wight Council
• Isle of Wight Rural District, a rural district from 1894 to 1974
• Isle of Wight, a group of dwellings within Bookham Commons, Surrey

In the United States of America:

• Isle of Wight (Maryland)
• Isle of Wight County, Virginia
• Isle of Wight, Virginia, an unincorporated community
• The original name of Gardiners Island, New York

Isle of Wight was a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix, released in November 1971 by Polydor in the U.K. only. The album documents Hendrix's performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival on August 30, 1970, his last performance in England before his death in September. The album was engineered by Carlos Ohlms (a British-based engineer). The record company did not use a picture from the Isle of Wight concert. The cover photo is from a live concert from Berlin, Deutschlandhalle, September 4, 1970. The album spent only two weeks in the U.K. albums chart, peaking at No. 17.

Isle of Wight contains just part of the concert, but this release has a unique mix compared to the Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight 2002 release). The entire performance was released on the 2002 album Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight.

Isle of Wight is an island in Worcester County, just west of Ocean City in Maryland. It is designated by the state of Maryland as a Wildlife Management Area.