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Brest (French pronunciation: ⓘ; [3] Breton pronunciation: [4]) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany.Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of a peninsula and the western extremity of metropolitan France, [5] Brest is an important harbour and the second largest French military port after Toulon.
The roadstead of Brest (French: rade de Brest, French pronunciation: [ʁad də bʁɛst]; Breton: Lenn-vor Brest) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. The surface area is about 180 km² (70 sq mi). The port of Brest and one of the two French naval bases, Brest Arsenal, are located on its ...
Module:Location map/data/France Roadstead of Brest is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Roadstead of Brest. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Florida sailed on July 27, 1863 from Bermuda for Brest, France, where she lay in the French naval dock from August 23, 1863, to February 12, 1864. There, broken in health, Maffitt relinquished command to Commander Joseph Nicholson Barney , whose ill health prompted an additional handover to Lieutenant Charles Manigault Morris .
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The arrondissement of Brest is an arrondissement of France in the Finistère department in the Brittany region. It has 77 communes . [ 2 ] Its population is 381,226 (2021), and its area is 1,396.2 km 2 (539.1 sq mi).
Île Longue (French pronunciation: [il lɔ̃ɡ]; French for "Long Island"; Breton: Enez-Hir) is a peninsula of the roadstead of Brest in the department of Finistère in the Brittany region. It is the base of the French nuclear ballistic missile submarines ( French : sous-marin nucléaire lanceur d'engins, SNLE ), and as such one of the most ...
Its source is in the town of Gouesnou.It then passes through Bohars and Guilers (a village bears the river's name) before it flows out into the roadstead of Brest.The Penfeld runs along the former course of the river Aulne, shifted to the west by the opening of the goulet of the roadstead of Brest by the interglacial periods of the Quaternary Era.