Islands of France - Corsica, Islands of Brittany, Islands of French Guiana, Islands of Guadeloupe, Islands of Hauts-de-Seine (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Banc du Geyser, Basse-Terre Island, Cavallo (island), Chausey, Er Lannic, Frioul archipelago, Grande-Ile, Normandy, Grande-Terre, Grande Ile, Strasbourg, Guadeloupe, Ile-d'Aix, Iles d'Hyeres, Iles des Saintes, Ile aux Cygnes, Ile d'Or, Ile d'Yeu, Ile des Cygnes (former island), Ile des Juifs, Ile de la Cite, Ile de Re, Ile du Levant, Ile Madame, Ile Saint-Louis, Ile Seguin, Ile Tintamarre, Isle Louvier, Paris, Juan de Nova Island, Lavezzi Islands, La Desirade, List of islands of France, Marie-Galante, Oleron, Petite Terre Islands, Pheasant Island, Porquerolles, Ratonneau, Tatihou, Tromelin Island. Excerpt: The Iles des Saintes ("Islands of the Saints"), also known as Les Saintes, is a small archipelago of the French Antilles located to the south of Basse-Terre Island, west of Marie-Galante and north of Dominica. It is a dependency of Guadeloupe, which, in turn, is an overseas department and region of France. Les Saintes is a volcanic archipelago fully encircled by shallow reefs. It arise from the recent volcanic belt of the Lesser Antilles from the Pliocene Epoch. It is composed of rocks appeared on the Tertiary age between (4.7 to 2 million years ago). By origin, it was a unique island that the Tectonic and Volcanic earthquakes separate to create an archipelago due to the subduction zone between the South American plate, the North American plate and the caribbean plate. Les Saintes is composed of two very mountainous inhabited islands, Terre-de-Haut Island and Terre-de-Bas Island, with seven other uninhabited ilets: The total surface is 12.8 km (4.9 sq mi). The archipelago has approximately 22 km (14 mi) of coast and its highest hill, Chameau ("Camel"), reaches about 309 metres (1,014 ft). Pain de Sucre, Terre-de-Haut.Les Saintes is a territory of the northern hemisphere situated in North America, in the Caribbean islands, between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. It is positioned at 15 51' North, that is the same latitude as Thailand or Honduras, and at 61 36' West, the same longitude as Labrador and the Falkland Islands. This locality places the archipelago at 6,800 km (4,200 mi) from metropolitan France; at 2,200 km (1,400 mi) from the southeast of Florida, at 600 km (370 mi) from the coast of South America, and exactly at the heart of the arc of the Lesser Antilles. Les Saintes lies immediately south of the island of Guadeloupe and east of Marie-Galante. It is separated from Guadeloupe by Les Saintes Passage and from the North of Dominica by Dominica Passage. The archipelago is, at the administrative level, a canton divided into two municipalities: Terre-de-H