It is an extremely rare phenomenon, especially in France. A new island is simply emerging, right in the Gironde estuary ...
Covering an area of 4 hectares at high tide and a hundred at low tide, this island materialized at the beginning of this year from sediments accumulated on sandbanks, two kilometers from the famous Cordouan lighthouse. On the scale of the formation of continents, its birth is sudden.
There are already a dozen different plant species, and the place has become the darling of researchers.
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