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Mont-Saint-Michel [3] (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France. The island lies approximately one kilometre (one-half nautical mile) off France's north-western coast, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near Avranches ...
The Grande Île (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d il]; German: Große Insel) is an island that lies at the historic centre of the city of Strasbourg in France.Its name means "Large Island", and derives from the fact that it is surrounded on one side by the main channel of the Ill river and on the other side by the Canal du Faux-Rempart, a canalised arm of that river.
Location of Sainte-Marguerite within Lérins islands. The Île Sainte-Marguerite (pronounced [il sɛ̃t maʁɡ(ə)ʁit]) is the largest of the Lérins Islands, about half a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes. [1] [2] The island is approximately 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) in length (east to west) and 900 metres (0.56 miles) across.
The Île de la Cité (French: [il d(ə) la site]; English: City Island, lit. "Island of the City"), [1] is 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, [2] is one of the two natural islands in the Seine River (alongside, Île Saint-Louis) in central Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the area governor for the Roman Empire.
Île Saint-Louis (French: [il sɛ̃ lwi]), eleven hectares (27 acres) in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine river, in Paris, France (the other natural island is the Île de la Cité, where Notre-Dame de Paris is located). Île Saint-Louis is connected to the rest of Paris by four bridges to both banks of the river and to the Île de la Cité by the Pont Saint-Louis.
Gavrinis (Breton: Gavriniz) is a small island in the Gulf of Morbihan in Brittany, France. It contains the Gavrinis tomb, a Neolithic passage tomb built around 4200–4000 BC, making it one of the world's oldest surviving buildings. Stones inside the passage and chamber are covered in megalithic art.
Oléron island aerial view. The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island (French: île d'Oléron, [il dɔleʁɔ̃]; Saintongese: ilâte d'Olerun; Latin: Uliaros insula, [uliˈaːros ˈinsula]) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. 1686 map of Oléron
Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island) is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi; 1,500 acres).