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Sculptor Auguste Rodin's villa "des Brillants", now a museum of his art, is located here, as is his grave. Jean-Paul Sartre grew up at his maternal grandfather's house in Meudon, as recounted in his memoir The Words; Adama Soumare, footballer; Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia lived here in exile in Château Sans-Souci (in Bellevue ...
Le Morne Brabant [lə mɔʁn bʁa.bɑ̃] is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.On it is a basaltic monolith of the same name 556 metres (1,824 ft) high.
Accompong (from the Asante name Acheampong) is a historical Maroon village located in the hills of St. Elizabeth Parish on the island of Jamaica.It is located in Cockpit Country, where Jamaican Maroons and Indigenous Taíno established a fortified stronghold in the hilly terrain in the 17th century.
Pointe des Trois Bassins, located on the coast of the commune of Trois-Bassins (west), is the driest season, with a normal annual precipitation of 447.7 mm (17.63 in), while Le Baril, in Saint-Philippe (southeast), is the wettest coastal season, with a normal annual precipitation of 4,256.2 mm (167.57 in).
Marinduque (/ ˌ m æ r ə n ˈ d uː k eɪ /; Tagalog pronunciation: [maɾinˈduke]), officially the Province of Marinduque, is an island province in the Philippines located in Southwestern Tagalog Region or Mimaropa, formerly designated as Region IV-B. Its capital is the municipality of Boac, the most populous in the province.
The autonomous island of Rodrigues is located 560 km (350 mi) to the east of Mauritius, with an area 108 km 2 (42 sq mi). [120] Rodrigues is a volcanic island rising from a ridge along the edge of the Mascarene Plateau. The island is hilly with a central spine culminating in the highest peak, Mountain Limon at 398 m (1,306 ft).
The Médoc (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Gascon: Medòc) is a region of France, well known as a wine growing region, located in the département of Gironde, on the left bank of the Gironde estuary, northwest of Bordeaux. Its name comes from Medullicus, or "country of the Medulli", the local Celtic tribe.
Manitoulin Island (/ ˌ m æ n ə ˈ t uː l ɪ n / MAN-ə-TOO-lin) is an island in Lake Huron, located within the borders of the Canadian province of Ontario, in the bioregion known as Laurentia. With an area of 2,766 km 2 (1,068 sq mi), it is the largest lake island in the world, large enough that it has over 100 lakes itself.