Grande-Terre
Americannoun
noun
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Similar scenes of devastation on Mayotte's other main island Grande-Terre greeted French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday morning as he arrived with four tonnes of food and health aid.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2024
The easternmost point of Grande-Terre, with a dramatic landscape and huge, crashing waves.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2018
An eruption of the 4,813-foot La Soufrière volcano on its southern end in 1976 resulted in an evacuation, with many families moving permanently to Grande-Terre.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017
We spent an idyllic week on Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe’s eastern island, which is flat, dry and ringed with golden beaches, as compared with Basse-Terre, which is mountainous and dense with rain forests.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2017
On Grande-Terre the highest elevation is only 450 ft., and this island is the seat of extensive sugar plantations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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