Houat

Île-d'Houat Enez-Houad
Commune
The harbour in Houat
Coat of arms
Île-d'Houat Location within Brittany region Île-d'Houat
Coordinates: 47°23′25″N 2°57′22″W / 47.3903°N 2.9561°W / 47.3903; -2.9561Coordinates: 47°23′25″N 2°57′22″W / 47.3903°N 2.9561°W / 47.3903; -2.9561
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Morbihan
Arrondissement	Lorient
Canton	Quiberon
Government
• Mayor (2008—2014)	Joseph Le Gurun
Area1	2.91 km2 (1.12 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	335
• Density	120/km2 (300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	56086 /56170
Elevation	0–42 m (0–138 ft) (avg. 27 m or 89 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Houat (Enez Houad in Breton) is a French island off the south coast of Brittany in the department of Morbihan. It is located, along with two other major islands, in the entrance to the Baie de Quiberon. Its "twin sister" island is Hoëdic.

Administratively, Île-d'Houat is a commune of the Morbihan department.

Geography

5 km (3.1 mi) long, 1.5 km (0.93 mi) at the widest. The island is mostly granite cliffs except for a long beach lined with dunes on the eastern coast.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Île-d'Houat are called Houatais.

Miscellaneous

Houat is the setting for Iain Pears' 2005 novel The Portrait.

See also

• Communes of the Morbihan department
• HMS Macbeth (1906), a minesweeper that was sold into civil service post-World War I and was lost in 1930 near Île-d'Houat.^[1]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Houat.

• (in French) Getting there
• (in French) French Ministry of Culture list for Île-d'Houat
• (in English) Map of Île-d'Houat on Michelin