Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
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The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques is a Second World War bunker, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais département of France, and only some 14.4 kilometers north-northwest from the more developed La Coupole V-2 launch facility, in the same general area.
View of the south side of the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques
Annotated aerial view of the Watten–Éperlecques area.
Construction works at the Watten site, as seen by an RAF ultra-low-level reconnaissance flight at an altitude of only 30 m (98 ft) on 23 July 1944
Aerial view of the bunker, 1944 or 1945
Pas-de-Calais
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The Pas-de-Calais is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments of France, with 890, and is the 8th most populous. It had a population of 1,465,278 in 2019. The Calais Passage connects to the Port of Calais on the English Channel. The Pas-de-Calais borders the departments of Nord and Somme and is connected to the English county of Kent via the Channel Tunnel.
Prefecture building of the Pas-de-Calais department, in Arras
View of the English coast, from Pas-de-Calais
The Université d'Artois' campus in Lens sits in the ancient headquarters of Compagnie des mines.
Mussel aquaculture in Wissant