Vectis may refer to:

Places

* Vectis, the ancient Roman name for the

Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight ( ) is a county in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, from which it is separated by the Solent. It is the largest and second-most populous island of England. Referred to as 'The Island' by residents, the Isle of ...

Organisations

* Vectis Bus Company, the forerunner of present day Isle of Wight bus company

Southern Vectis Southern Vectis is a bus operator on the Isle of Wight. The company was founded in 1921 as "Dodson and Campbell" and became the "Vectis Bus Company" in 1923. The company was purchased by the Southern Railway (Great Britain), Southern Railway b ...

, set up in the early 1920s. *

Vectis postal service The Vectis postal service was a postal service set up during the national postal strike of the United Kingdom in 1971. This was amongst a number of local delivery services which flourished during the strike. The service was set up by a group of R ...

, a postal service set up to serve the Isle of Wight during the postal strikes of 1971. * The

Vectis National Party The Vectis National Party was a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. Formed in 1967,Adam Grydehøj and Philip Hayward"Autonomy Initiatives and Quintessential Englishness on the Isle of Wigh ...

, a minor political party operating on the Isle of Wight in the early 1970s. * The Vectis Tigers, an English ice hockey team on the Isle of Wight founded in 2007, now known as the

Wightlink Tigers The Wightlink Tigers was an amateur English ice hockey team from the Isle of Wight. The team was founded in July 2007 as the Vectis Tigers, and played at Ryde Arena, Isle of Wight. From the 2009–10 season onwards the team played as the Wightlin ...

. * Vectis Radio, a radio station launched in 2010 by former

Isle of Wight Radio Isle of Wight Radio is an independent local radio station in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The station began transmitting from Briddlesford Farm AM transmitter on 15 April 1990. Isle of Wight Radio switched to FM in March 1998, its main transmi ...

DJ Ian Mac.

Other uses

* The

Vectis Formation The Vectis Formation is a geological formation on the Isle of Wight and Swanage, England whose strata were formed in the lowermost Aptian, approximately 125 million years ago."Magnetostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Vectis Formation (Wealden ...

, an Early Cretaceous fossil-bearing geological formation on the Isle of Wight * , a name used more than once by the British Royal Navy *

Calipt'Air Vectis The Calipt'Air Vectis is a Swiss single-place, paraglider that was designed and produced by Calipt'Air of Spiez Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part ...

, a Swiss paraglider design * Vectis forceps (Single bladed Caesarean forceps) * Minolta Vectis S series，film SLR cameras made by Minolta {{disambiguation