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unusual facts about ''Dunkerque''



Canal de Bergues

The Canal de Bergues is an 8 km long canal connecting Bergues and the ports at Dunkerque, in the Nord department, in northern France.

Canal de Bourbourg

In the village of Brouckerque, coming from Dunkerque, the canal can either turn right on its path to the Aa at Bourbourg, or continue straight to join the Canal de la Colme near the village of Lynck and continue on to the Aa River at Watten.

The Canal de Bourbourg is a 19.5 km long canal which connects the Aa River (near Bourbourg) and Dunkerque's inner harbours in the Nord department, in northern France.

Europorte Channel

In June 2007 the Eurotunnel entered into a collaboration with the Port of Dunkirk relating to rail freight traffic through Europorte 2 subsidiary; the company was to operate trains from Dunkerque to the Delta 3 logistics terminal at Dourges, and collaborate on container shipments to the UK using the port of Dunkerque via channel tunnel.

Georges Lesieur

Setting up in the neighbourhood of Dunkerque - third largest port in France for the import of groundnuts after Marseille and Bordeaux - became a natural conclusion.

HMS Dunkirk

The Dunkerque was a French fast battleship of a similar name commissioned in 1937 and scuttled in 1942.

Jean Le Moal

Several retrospectives have been dedicated to Le Moal’s work, including at Musée de Lubeck and Musée de Wuppertal (1961), Musée de Metz and Musée de la Ville de Luxembourg (1963), Musées de Rennes, Chartres, Rouen, Dijon, Lille and Caen (1970–1971), "Espace lyonnais d'art contemporain" and Musées de Besançon, Esch-sur-Alzette, Dunkerque and Nantes (1990–1992).

MS European Endeavour

She remained in Dunkerque until early February 2011 when she sailed for Liverpool in preparation for returning to service on the Liverpool-Dublin service replacing the M/V Norcape.

MV Volcan de Tacande

After 7 December 1997, during operation between Calais - Dover, the SeaFrance Monet was laid up in Dunkerque.

TER-GV

Lille-Europe - Dunkerque (30 min): The first half of the journey is made on the LGV Nord until a junction near Hazebrouck after which the train continues at lower speed on the conventional line to Dunkerque.

USL Dunkerque

In 1990, Belgian player Jean-Marc Bosman sought to move from RFC Liège in his home country to USL Dunkerque after his Belgian contract expired.


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