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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.
This is a list of islands of France, ... Location Population 1: ... Bassas da India; Glorioso Islands. Île Glorieuse ...
Name Location Coordinates Elevation Size Depth Lac Aglaé: Main Island: 220 metres (720 ft) 5 sq km 50m Lac Alicia: Australia Island: 10 metres (33 ft) || Lac d'Argoat
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).
The name Lac du Temple comes from the Templars, who settled in the area in the Middle Ages, [14] giving their name to the Forêt du Temple and the Forêt d'Orient, which surround the lake. It was formerly known as "Lac Auzon-Temple", [nb 1] after the river Auzon, whose upper valley was partly drowned by the lake.
Lac Marville is located on Grande-Terre, the archipelago's main island, along the northeastern shore of the Courbet Peninsula, between Cape Sandwich to the south and Cape Digby to the north. [ 2 ] It was patently known to whalers as early as the 19th century, for Captain Joseph J. Fuller in his memoirs described a large lake, at the back of the ...
Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] [b] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Lac d'Allos in the Mercantour National Park. This list of lakes in France roughly distinguishes three categories: the mountain lakes, sorted first by massif, and then by départements; the lakes in plains, sorted by river basin; and the coastal lakes.