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    Audierne (French pronunciation: [odjɛʁn]; Breton: Gwaien) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2016...
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    The Battle of the Audierne Bay was an engagement between German and Allied naval flotillas that took place on 23 August 1944, during World War II. Three...
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    While in temporary command of Antelope, he drove a French ship ashore in Audierne Bay, and captured two privateers in 1757 during the Seven Years' War. He...
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    Rochelle Air and Sea operations Ushant La Caine Cherbourg Pierres Noires Audierne Bay Supporting operations Dingson Samwest Titanic Cooney Bulbasket Houndsworth...
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  • On 27 January 2010, Le Terrible launched an M51 SLBM from underwater in Audierne Bay. The missile reached its target 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) off North...
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  • 2010, at 9h25, a missile was launched underwater by Le Terrible, from Audierne Bay off the coast of Brittany in north-western France. The missile reached...
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    the war effort as it was hoped. The last German outpost surrendered at Audierne on 20 September. By this time, Paris had already been liberated by the...
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  • Neckam and wet nurse of Richard I of England. Hodierna is also known as Audierne. According to legend, Richard I and Alexander Neckam were born on the same...
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  • France — Normandy and in Brittany (Bay of Douarnenez, Locronan, Bay of Audierne, near Plovan - on the long sandy beach where the German version of the...
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    Brittany in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into Audierne commune. Inhabitants of Esquibien are called in French Esquibiennois. Communes...
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    elevation 321 m (1,053 ft)) Île Mayès Îles du Prince-de-Monaco (south, in the Audierne bay) Îles de Boynes (four small islands 30 km or 16 nmi south of Presqu'ile...
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    Pays Bigouden), historically known as Cap Caval, is, along the Bay of Audierne, the most south-western area of Bro Kernev in Brittany, south-west of Quimper...
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    d'Audierne. The territory of Cap Sizun is formed by the communes of Pont-Croix, Audierne, Plouhinec, Confort-Meilars, Mahalon, Esquibien, Beuzec-Cap-Sizun, Goulien...
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    (Somme), Albert (Somme), Amiens (Somme), Apt (Vaucluse), Les Arcs (Var), Audierne (Finistère), Bègles (Gironde), Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (Ain), Le Bourget...
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  • (1970) Aquarium Mare Nostrum Montpellier - Montpellier (2007) L'Aquashow - Audierne (2000) Centre de la Mer et des Eaux (closed 2010) - Paris Citadel of Besançon...
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  • Bigouden) historically known as "Cap Caval" and located along the Bay of Audierne (Bro Kernev), south-west of Quimper, Brittany. They have been officially...
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    part of a frigate squadron under Sir Edward Pellew. She was wrecked in Audierne Bay in 1797, following an action on 13 January with the French ship-of-the-line...
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    morning of 14 January, the three ships were embayed on a lee shore in Audierne Bay. Both the Droits de l'Homme and Amazon ran aground, but Indefatigable...
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    Pays Bigouden (roughly the region between the river Odet and the Bay of Audierne), Pont-l'Abbé was founded in the 14th century by a monk of Loctudy who...
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    v t e  Communes of the Finistère department Argol Arzano Audierne Bannalec Baye Bénodet Berrien Beuzec-Cap-Sizun Bodilis Bohars Bolazec Botmeur Botsorhel...
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  • Danish cargo ship that was torpedoed by U-104 in the Bay of Biscay off Audierne, France, while she was travelling from Bilbao, Spain, to Cardiff, Wales...
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