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Vectis
Vectis may refer to:
- Vectis, the ancient Roman name for the Isle of Wight
- location of the Vectis postal service
- and the Vectis National Party
- The Vectis Formation, an Early Cretaceous fossil-bearing geological formation on the Isle of Wight
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, a name used more than once by the British Royal Navy
- The Wightlink Tigers, an English ice hockey team on the Isle of Wight formerly known as the Vectis Tigers
- Calipt'Air Vectis, a Swiss paraglider design
Usage examples of "vectis".
Now Calshot is passed, now receding from view, Once more, happy Vectis, a long, last adieu.
In the south, the Ala V Gallorum spent two days under the command of Vespasian, legate of the Ilnd Augusta, subduing Vectis, the island that lay off the coast and was supposed already to have spoken for Rome.
The land had belonged to Melwas, the client King of the Belgae whom Arthur had sent in punishment to Isca, and it was land we sorely missed for its loss brought Cerdic very close to the rich estates about Durnovaria and also meant that his ships were just minutes away from Ynys Wit, the great island that the Romans had called Vectis and which lay just off our coast.