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French Guiana

Country number:
2
Territory number:
115
"The difficulties with French Guiana begin with trying to locate it on a map. Seldom has a place been as easily and as frequently confused with somewhere else."
Alain de Botton, Independent
A red roofed church at Cayenne
Ruined buildings on the Iles du Salut
Decrepit apartment buildings facing the sea at Cayenne
A poster of the Ariane rocket launching at the Centre Spatial
View of Devil's Island French Guiana
Colonial nursery school building Cayenne French Guiana

Tales from French Guiana

French Guiana - Space Age France in South America - Venezuela and the Guianas 4

It’s a short trip across to St Laurent, in French Guiana. This was the French equivalent of Botany Bay, a receiving station for new...
It’s a short trip across to St Laurent, in French Guiana. This was the French equivalent of Botany Bay, a receiving station for new inmates bound for the notoriously brutal penal colony.
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