The ÃŽle d'Arun () is an islet in the
confluence
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of the rivers
Aulne
The Aulne (; ) is a long river of Brittany in north-western France, flowing down the hills and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest, the na ...
and
Le Faou, at the base of the
roadstead of Brest
The roadstead of Brest (, ; ) is a roadstead or bay located in the Finistère Departments of France, department in Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in northwestern France. The surface area is about 180 km² (70 sq mi). The po ...
. It is located in the territory of the commune of
Rosnoën in
Finistère
Finistère (, ; ) is a Departments of France, department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. Its prefecture is Quimper and its largest city is Brest, France, Brest. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090.[France
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, and its highest point above sea level is 11m. Accessible by a land route, it was the stopping-off point for gunpowder headed from the powder-mills at
Pont-de-Buis to the naval port at
Brest. It thus has the remains of a powder-magazine.
"Poudrière de l'île d'Arun"
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Fortifications of Brest, France
Arun
Landforms of Finistère