Urk, that's my fault. I must have seen coverage from Saint-Dénis and become confused.
I'll rewrite this and the caption (there are no nice images of Saint-André, it seems, so I'll just reword). Thanks for the heads-up! Joe On 6 August 2015 at 17:49, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Le jeudi 6 août 2015, 17:14:22 Joe Sutherland a écrit : > > >> > > >> • Plane parts found on the French territory Réunion were this week > > Just a quick note: I noticed that the caption for this item in the blog > post > said: > > "The parts were discovered on the coast of Saint-Denis, the island’s > capital." > > Reunion is a "département", not a state, so it doesn't have a capital (the > only "capital" in France is Paris ;). The département's seat city is a > "préfecture". ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France#General_characteristics > ) > > However, after looking into this a bit (I lived there for a few years, so > this > is of interest to me), we may not even need to go into the intricacies of > French administrative divisions, since the debris seem to have actually > been > found in Saint-André, not Saint-Denis (according to the WP article about > Flight 370, and the relevant sources). Saint-André is a smaller city on the > east coast of the island: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Andr%C3%A9,_R%C3%A9union > > I'm not sure if you want to edit the blog post, but I thought I'd mention > it. > > -- > Guillaume Paumier > -- *Joe Sutherland* Communications Intern [remote] m: +44 (0) 7722 916 433 | t: @jrbsu <http://twitter.com/jrbsu> | w: JSutherland <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)>
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