While it was originally a term used from the UK to describe funds set up in the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, these days the vast majority of such funds are not actually offshore at all, but very much land-locked.

• 它起源于英国，本是用来形容在根西与泽西海峡岛设立的基金。 但今时今日，许多这类基金其实都不再是岸外，而多是内陆的。