Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Cotentin peninsula is part of the Armorican Massif [2] (with the exception of the Plain lying in the Paris Basin) and lies between the estuary of the Vire river and Mont Saint-Michel Bay. It is divided into three areas: the headland of Cap de la Hague, the Cotentin Pass (the Plain), and the valley of the Saire River (Val de Saire). It forms ...
Aerial view of the city of Cherbourg and the harbor Plan of Cherbourg harbour showing its outer breakwaters. Cherbourg Harbour (French: rade de Cherbourg; literally, the "roadstead of Cherbourg") is a harbour situated at the northern end of the Cotentin Peninsula, on the English Channel coastline, in Normandy, northwestern France.
Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file; Special pages
By the 1770s, with French involvement in the American War of Independence, Louis XVI sought to create a large military port on the Cotentin Peninsula, allowing access into the English Channel, and comparable to that of Brest on the Atlantic. Two projects were drawn up and presented to the king in 1777.
A map of the Cotentin peninsula, with Cherbourg to the north Cherbourg is located at the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula , in the department of Manche , of which it is a subprefecture . At the time of the 1999 census the city of Cherbourg had an area of 6.91 square kilometres (2.668 sq mi), while the city of Octeville had an area of 7.35 ...
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin (French pronunciation: [ʃɛʁbuʁ ɑ̃ kɔtɑ̃tɛ̃], lit. ' Cherbourg in Cotentin '; Norman: Tchidbouo) is a port city in the department of Manche, Normandy, northwestern France, established on 1 January 2016. [3] The commune takes its name from Cherbourg, the main town of the commune, and from the Cotentin Peninsula.
Îles Saint-Marcouf comprise two small uninhabited islands off the coast of Normandy, France.They lie in the Baie de la Seine region of the English Channel and are 6.5 km (4.0 mi) east of the coast of the Cotentin peninsula at Ravenoville and 13 km (8 mi) from the island of Tatihou and the harbour at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Carentan ( French pronunciation: [kaʁɑ̃tɑ̃] ) is a small rural town near the north-eastern base of the French Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy in north-western France , with a population of about 6,000.