Houat
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| Commune of Île-d'Houat Enez-Houad |
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| Location | |
| Longitude | -2.95° |
| Latitude | 47.38° |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Bretagne |
| Department | Morbihan |
| Arrondissement | Lorient |
| Canton | Quiberon |
| Mayor | Joseph Le Gurun (1995-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 0 m–42 m (avg. 27 m) |
| Land area¹ | 2.91 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
335 |
| - Density (1999) | 115/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 56086/ 56170 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Houat (Enez Houad in Breton) is a little island off the south coast of Brittany in the French département of Morbihan. It is located, at , along with two other major islands, in the entrance to the Baie de Quiberon. Its "twin sister" island is Hoëdic.
Administratively, Île-d'Houat is a commune of the Morbihan département.
[edit] Geography
5 km long, 1.5 km at the widest. The island is mostly granite cliffs except for a long beach lined with dunes on the eastern coast.
[edit] Miscellaneous
Houat is the setting for Iain Pears' 2005 novel The Portrait.
[edit] External links
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