Marie-Galante
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Marie-Galante is one of the dependencies of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. Marie-Galante has a land area of 158.1 km2. It had 11,528 inhabitants at the start of 2013, but by the start o
Moulin Bezard, Historic Monument of France, windmill built around 1840, stopped working around 1920.
Ruins of the Trianon Sugar Factory established in 1669
Gueule Grand Gouffre, Marie-Galante
Beach on Marie Galante
Steven Callahan
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Steven Callahan is an American author, naval architect, inventor, and sailor. In 1981, he survived for 76 days adrift on the Atlantic Ocean in a liferaft. Callahan recounted his ordeal in the best-sel
Marie-Galante
…overseas department. In 2007, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélemy each became an overseas collectivity, making them politically separate from Guadeloupe. Steven Callahan, who was lost at sea in a small (5-foot-6-inch (1.7 m) inside diameter) Avon life raft for 76 days, was found alive on April 21, 1982, off the coast…
Callahan describes his experience of being adrift to students at North Yarmouth Academy in 2016