Île d’Yeu
Île d'Yeu or L'Île-d'Yeu, is an island and commune just off the Vendée coast of western France. The island's two harbors, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule to the south, in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for tuna and lobster fishing, respectively.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island off the coast of the Vendée in western France
- Also known as: “île d’Yeu” and “Yeu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort de Pierre-Levée and Vieux-château de l’Île d’Yeu.
Vieux-château de l’Île d’Yeu
Castle
Photo: CaptainHaddock, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Vieux-château de l'île d'Yeu is a fortification on Île d'Yeu off the French Atlantic coast in the département of Vendée. Olivier IV de Clisson, a great builder of castles, undertook the work with the aim of protecting the islanders in the event of foreign invasion.
Chapelle du Père-de-Montfort de Ker-Châlon
Church
Photo: Éduarel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chapelle du Père-de-Montfort de Ker-Châlon is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port-Joinville.
Île d’Yeu
- Category: landform
- Location: Vendée, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Vietnamese—“Île d’Yeu” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Yeu”
- Catalan: “Illa de Yeu”
- Cebuano: “Île d’Yeu”
- Chechen: “Иль-д’Йе”
- Chinese: “L’Île-d’Yeu”
- Chinese: “约岛”
- Dimli (individual language): “Île d’Yeu”
- Dutch: “Ile d’Yeu”
- Dutch: “Île d’Yeu”
- Esperanto: “Île-d’Yeu”
- Estonian: “Yeu”
- Finnish: “Île d’Yeu”
- French: “île d’Yeu”
- French: “Île d’Yeu”
- French: “Yeu”
- German: “Île d’Yeu”
- Greek: “Ιλ ντ Ιε”
- Greek: “Ιλ ντ’Ιέ”
- Hebrew: “איל דה יו”
- Hungarian: “Île d’Yeu”
- Hungarian: “Yeu-sziget”
- Japanese: “ユー島”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Île d’Yeu”
- Korean: “일디외섬”
- Macedonian: “Је”
- Min Nan Chinese: “L’Île-d’Yeu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Île d’Yeu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illa d’Yeù”
- Polish: “Île d’Yeu”
- Portuguese: “Île d’Yeu”
- Russian: “Иль-д’Йё”
- Russian: “Йё”
- Uzbek: “Île d’Yeu”
- Vietnamese: “Île d’Yeu”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ker Bossy and Ker Pissot.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Port de la Meule and Cap des Degrés.
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