Porquerolles Island (France)
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Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q975080
Library of congress:
sh2001001752
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 00697550: Saffroy, Frédéric. Les canons de Porquerolles, c1999.
- Columbia gaz.:p. 2483 ("... westernmost of the Hyères Islands ... almost entirely under public ownership ...")
- GEOnet, Jan. 4, 2000(Porquerolles, Île de, isl, 43⁰00ʹ00ʺN, 6⁰13ʹ00ʺE)
- Web geog.("one of the Hyères Islands ... fortified island ...")
- Online, Jan. 4, 2000, Bureau Informations Porquerolles(Porquerolles is "la perle des Îles D'or" and mostly given over to a nature preserve.)
Wikipedia description:
Porquerolles (French pronunciation: [pɔʁkəʁɔl]; Occitan: Porcairòlas), also known as the Île de Porquerolles, is an island in the Îles d'Hyères, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. Its land area is 1,254 hectares (12.54 km2; 4.84 sq mi) and in 2004, its population was about 200. Porquerolles is the largest and most westerly of the Îles d'Hyères, about 7 km (4.3 miles) long by 3 km (1.9 miles) wide, with five small ranges of hills. The south coast is lined with cliffs, and on the north coast are the port and the beaches of Notre Dame, La Courtade and Plage d'Argent.
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