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    Mont de la Dives is the highest mountain in Amsterdam Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Indian Ocean. This 881 m (2,890 ft) high peak rises...
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    on its longest side, and reaches as high as 867 m (2,844 ft) at the Mont de la Dives. The high central area of the island, at an elevation of over 500 metres...
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  • Ham Lewis Dives, English Member of Parliament Mont de la Dives, mountain in Amsterdam Island, French Southern and Antarctic Lands SU Dives, a French association...
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    level, it contains the island's highest peaks: Mont de la Dives (881 m), Grande Marmite (742 m) and Mont Fernand (731 m). The lower-lying areas of the...
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    Saba Mount Scenery 887 m 2910 ft  Saba (Netherlands) * Île Amsterdam Mont de la Dives 881 m 2890 ft  France (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) * Eysturoy...
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    then situated between the Mont de Caumont hill and the RD513 road. After passing Port of Dives-sur-Mer, the line reaches Dives-sur-Mer after passing the...
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  • – an open-air monument at the hill's summit (overlooking the vallée de la Dives and the plain where the last phases of the battle played out), which...
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    Dives-sur-Mer (French pronunciation: [div syʁ mɛʁ] , literally Dives on Sea; Norman: Dives sus Mé) is a commune in the Calvados department in Normandy...
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    (Moselle) (near Mondelange) Seille (in Metz) Rupt de Mad (in Arnaville) Meurthe (in Frouard) Mortagne (in Mont-sur-Meurthe) Madon (in Pont-Saint-Vincent) Vologne...
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    scuba diving suit in 1946 when Jacques Cousteau reached 46 metres (151 ft), then 74 metres (243 ft) nine years later. This is the limit of dives with air...
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  • The Salève (French pronunciation: [salɛv]), or Mont Salève, is a mountain of the French Prealps located in the department of Haute-Savoie in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...
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  • until 1997 Saint-Pierre-de-Véronne-à-Pike-River, Quebec, now called Pike River Saint-Pierre-de-Wakefield, part of Val-des-Monts Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets...
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    Ravezies–Pointe-de-Grave Saint-Sever–Hagetmau Siorac-en-Périgord–Cazoulès (abandoned beyond Sarlat-la-Canéda) Abandoned: Marmande–Mont-de-Marsan Nérac–Mont-de-Marsan...
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    Briouze – Bagnoles-de-l'Orne Argentan – Bagnoles-de-l'Orne Yvetot – Saint-Valery-en-Caux Alençon – Surdon Trouville-Deauville – Dives-Cabourg Argentan –...
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    large landholdings in central Normandy, chiefly in the valley of the River Dives, which the younger Roger inherited. Roger inherited his father’s estates...
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    1, and the Mont-de-Marsan unit GIGN 4, the numbering (1 or 4) being that of the military region. Histoire de la gendarmerie mobile d'Ile-de-France, 3 volumes...
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    Notre-Dame de Dives-Sur-Mer church is a Catholic building in the French commune of Dives-sur-Mer, in the Calvados department of the Normandy region. It...
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  • Audrieu Bayeux Blonville-sur-Mer-Benerville Bretteville-Norrey Caen Dives-Cabourg Dives-sur-Mer-Port Guillaume Frénouville-Cagny Le Grand-Jardin Houlgate...
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    Saint-Martin-de-Bienfaite-la-Cressonnière is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. Communes of the Calvados...
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    Villefranche-sur-Mer is immediately to the east of the city of Nice, along Mont Boron, Mont Alban and Mont Vinaigrier, and 6.2 mi (10 km) southwest of Monaco. The bay...
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    well as piloting dives to the wreck site.: 2 His work has resulted in recovering nearly 6,000 artefacts over the course of 35 dives. In 2010, he was part...
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  • Notre-Dame, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne Church of Notre-Dame de Dives-sur-Merent Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Port-au-Prince, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption...
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    The Mont-Gabriel becomes a municipality with only nine citizens. 1964: Sainte-Adèle-en-Haut and Sainte-Adèle-en-Bas are reunited. 1967: Village de Séraphin...
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    established a new mobile gendarmerie squadron in Mont-de-Marsan in southwest France: Escadron 9/11 parachutiste de la Gendarmerie mobile (EPGM). The squadron had...
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    Saint-Martin-de-la-Lieue (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ maʁtɛ̃ də la ljø] ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern...
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    about 9,000. Sir Raylton Dixon & Co built Mont-Blanc in Middlesbrough, England, for the Société Générale de Transport Maritime (SGTM). She was launched...
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    granite, including that used for the construction of Mont Saint-Michel. The south part of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne is filled with bourgeois villas in Belle Époque...
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    Domfront Hippodrome de la Couperée, Dozulé Hippodrome de la Dives, Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives Hippodrome de La Fontaine, Le Sap Hippodrome de la Madeleine, Hiesville...
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    Houlgate, with Houlgate station placed between Dives-sur-Mer and Houlgate. The walk below the cliffs separating Dives-sur-Mer and Houlgate soon became history...
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    Monts-en-Bessin (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ ɑ̃ bɛsɛ̃] , literally Monts in Bessin) is a commune in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region in...
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