Plage de Kerguélen

Plage de Kerguélen is a beach in Larmor-Plage, Arrondissement of Lorient, Brittany. Plage de Kerguélen is situated nearby to the locality La Télès, as well as near the neighborhood Kergalant.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fontaine Notre-Dame and Church Notre-Dame de Larmor-Plage.

Fontaine Notre-Dame

Fountain

Photo: XIIIfromTOKYO, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Fontaine Notre-Dame is a fountain.

Church Notre-Dame de Larmor-Plage

Church

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Navy museum

Museum

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Navy museum is situated 3 km east of Plage de Kerguélen.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gâvres and Port-Louis.

Gâvres is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. French Navy Minister Hyde de Neuville chose this place as a military testing area in 1829 for heavy marine ordnance. Gâvres is situated 3½ km east of Plage de Kerguélen.

Port-Louis

Village

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Port-Louis is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in northwestern France. Port-Louis is situated 4 km east of Plage de Kerguélen.

Ploemeur

Town

Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ploemeur, sometimes written instead as Plœmeur, is a commune in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany in north-western France. It is a western suburb of Lorient. Ploemeur is situated 4 km northwest of Plage de Kerguélen.

Plage de Kerguélen

Type: Beach
Category: landform
Location: Larmor-Plage, Arrondissement of Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France, Europe
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Latitude

47.7021° or 47° 42′ 8″ north

Longitude

-3.40059° or 3° 24′ 2″ west

Elevation

2 metres (7 feet)

Open location code

8CVRPH2X+RQ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 957868280

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=beach

GeoNames ID

3232357

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Satellite Map

Discover Plage de Kerguélen from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Breton to French—“Plage de Kerguélen” goes by many names.

Breton: “Traezhenn Kergelennn”
French: “Plage de Kerguelen”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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