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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
It was liberated by Free French Forces in an amphibious assault code-named Operation Jupiter on 29 April 1945. The French cruiser Duquesne fired 550 heavy shells at the German artillery batteries, and the garrison surrendered on the following day. [6] The isle of Oléron is known today for the quality of its oyster production. [7]
The depression in which the lake lies was formed by the movements of a glacier, while the lake itself was formed by a natural barrier around 12,000 years ago. At the downstream end is a waterfall known as the Saut du Doubs. A few hundred metres away, a bridge connects the French and Swiss sides of the lake.
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.
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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 lakes of the Aube region are best known for the thousands of sandhill cranes that stop here in November (over 20,000) and for being France's main site for the post-mating stopover of the black stork (Ciconia nigra). [24] The lakes are also home to a wide variety of fish, mainly: pike, carp, roach, perch, pike-perch, tench, and trout. [28]
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.