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Roland Garros Airport. / 20.89000°S 55.51639°E / -20.89000; 55.51639. Roland Garros Airport ( French: Aéroport de la Réunion Roland Garros) ( IATA: RUN, ICAO: FMEE ), formerly known as Gillot Airport, is located in Sainte-Marie on Réunion, France. [ 6] The airport is 7 kilometres (3.8 NM) east [ 2] of Saint-Denis; it is named after ...
Saint-Pierre Pierrefonds Airport. / 21.32167°S 55.42556°E / -21.32167; 55.42556. Pierrefonds Airport ( French: Aéroport de Saint-Pierre - Pierrefonds) ( IATA: ZSE, ICAO: FMEP) is an airport located 5.5 kilometres (3 NM) west-northwest [1] of Saint-Pierre in Réunion. It is the smaller of the two airports located on the island, Roland ...
Sainte-Pierre airport at lower right on Saint Pierre Island, 2013. Saint-Pierre Airport ( French: Aéroport de Saint-Pierre) ( IATA: FSP, ICAO: LFVP) is a regional airport located 1 NM (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of Saint-Pierre, in the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, off the east coast of Canada near Newfoundland .
List of airports in Réunion. This is a list of airports in Réunion, sorted by location. Réunion ( French: La Réunion) is an island and overseas department ( département d'outre-mer, or DOM) of France, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar, about 200 km southwest of Mauritius, the nearest island.
Saint-Denis was founded in 1669 by Étienne Regnault, the first governor of Bourbon Island (as La Réunion was then called), on the northern side of the island, where a larger and more fertile plain was deemed more propitious for the development of settlements than the drier and more barren area of Saint-Paul on the western side of the island.
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Saint-André ( French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃dʁe]) is the fifth-largest commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located on the northeast part of the island of Réunion.
The average annual temperature in Saint-Joseph is 24.4 °C (75.9 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,661.2 mm (65.40 in) with February as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 27.4 °C (81.3 °F), and lowest in July, at around 21.3 °C (70.3 °F).
Saint-Paul was to be the western terminus of the proposed Réunion Tram Train.However, the project was abandoned in May 2010 due to a lack of funds. The traditional grave of French pirate Olivier Levasseur, nicknamed La Buse ("The Buzzard") or La Bouche ("The Mouth"), who was most famous for allegedly hiding one of the biggest treasures in pirate history, estimated at over £1 billion, is ...