| | Learn more about La Rochelle in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | La Rochelle is a city of western France, and a seaport on the Atlantic Ocean. |
 | | The city is connected to the Île de Ré (island) by a 2.9 km bridge, completed in 1988. |
 | | The Calypso, the ship used by Jacques-Yves Cousteau as a mobile laboratory for oceanography, and which was sunk after a collision in the port of Singapore (1996) is now displayed at the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle. |
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