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    Yves de Kerguelen organised a second expedition in 1773 and arrived at the "baie de l'Oiseau" by December 1773. On 6 January 1774 he commanded his lieutenant...
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    island, on the east coast of the Loranchet Peninsula. It covers the bottom of Baie de l'Oiseau, the first shelter for sailors approaching the archipelago from...
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    The Bay of Bourgneuf (French: Baie de Bourgneuf, French pronunciation: [bɛ də buʁnœf]) is a bay situated on the French Atlantic coast, at the border of...
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    The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay (French: baie du Mont-Saint-Michel, pronounced [bɛ dy mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Breton: Bae Menez-Mikael) is located between Brittany (to...
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  • in 1913 on the French Navy map as "Baie Laissez-Porter", then in 1915 as "Baie du Repos". In 1922, in La Géographie, Rallier du Baty explains: "This name...
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  • Baie de l'Oiseau is a natural harbour in the Loranchet Peninsula, in the North-Western part of the island Grande Terre, part of the Kerguelen Islands....
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    The James Bay Project (French: projet de la Baie-James) refers to the construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in...
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  • Quebec". As of January 1950, he informed the secretary of the Commission de géographie du Québec of a project to name the geographical entities included in these...
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    Testu’s Grande Jave of 1556 is part of the Terre Australle, and bears a Baie Braecillie on its northwest coast, an appellation, as noted by Armand Rainaud...
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    communes of the arrondissement of Basse-Terre, and their INSEE codes, are: Baie-Mahault (97103) Baillif (97104) Basse-Terre (97105) Bouillante (97106) Capesterre-Belle-Eau...
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