Foulness Island Foulness Island Foulness Island () is an island on the east coast of Essex in England, which is separated from the mainland by narrow creeks. In the 2001 census, the usually resident population of the civil parish was 212, living in the settlements of Churchend and Courtsend, at the north end of the island. The population reduced to 151 at the 2011 Census. The island had until recently a general store and post office. The George and Dragon pub in Churchend closed in 2007, while the church closed in May 2010. Foulness Island is predominantly farmland and is protected from
White Island, Isles of Scilly Countryside Act 1981. Four species of gull and one species of petrel breed on White Island. They are Great Black-backed Gull ("Larus marinus"), Lesser Black-backed Gull ("L fuscus"), Herring Gull ("L argentatus"), Kittiwake ("Rissa tridactyla") and the Fulmar ("Fulmarus glacialis"). White Island, Isles of Scilly White Island (, "facing the mainland") is one of the larger unpopulated islands of the Isles of Scilly, part of the United Kingdom, and lies off the coast of the northernmost populated island of the group, St Martin's, to which it is joined by a tidal causeway, or isthmus. The island is designated as a