Groix

The Groix is a 2.5 km wide and 6 km long French island in the Morbihan department in Brittany region. It is located eight kilometers south of Lorient in Brittany. Your beacon ships serve as a navigation aid.

The island is identical with the community Groix, the 2220 has a population (as of 1 January 2011). It is the only municipality in the canton of the same name.

By 1940 Groix France was the most important tuna port. In the main town of Le Bourg a tuna adorns the bell tower of the Église Saint- Tudy.

A rarity in Europe is the Plage des Grands Sables (the large sandy beach ) - a fine sand, about 500 m long convex beach.

Geology

The Groix part of the Armorican Massif and is therefore a tiny part of the collision zone of the Urkontinente Gondwana and Laurussia (→ continental drift ), who united in the supercontinent Pangaea to the Carboniferous. On the entire island, including the protected area of the Pointe chats, occur days to rocks that have emerged over 300 million years ago deep in the earth's crust through metamorphosis and store in other parts of Europe under powerful outer layers. These are mainly mica schist and chlorite schist, and also to amphibolite and Glaukophanschiefer.

History

As of 1944, the German Navy entertained on the island a marine hospital.

On the Église Saint- Tudy a tuna indicates the wind direction

Port of Port Tudy

Lighthouse of Port Tudy