Perché questo triangolo vicino a Bordeaux è così scarsamente popolato rispetto all’ambiente circostante?
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Perché questo triangolo vicino a Bordeaux è così scarsamente popolato rispetto all’ambiente circostante?
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Wetlands and a big national park [Landes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landes_de_Gascogne_Regional_Natural_Park)
This is where the Landes forest is located.
It’s the Aquitaine Triangle. People here tend to disappear out of nowhere, only leaving behind the faint smell of croissants.
Once in a while cheese-shaped UFOs are seen flying over the area, although the French government denies that these sightings are real.
[Interesting documentary about this area](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VwZwzpRiQ)
Worst pizza ever!
Historically, it was a biotope called “Landes”, a bunch of peat ridden marshlands. It was also subject to high winds. It made for poor human settlement. The place got transformed in a forest-factory during the last centuries, but still, little human settlement.
Interestingly as sparingly populated that area is, right beneath it, bordering Spain, lies Biarritz which was **the** vacation spot for european nobility, the wealthy and celebrities from 1890 into the 1960s.
It was swamps, turned into pine forests. Now a very good camping place.
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Fuck they found out about the triangle. Initiate procedure.
It’s a national park now and used to be a swamp.
Marshlands and from what I’ve seen on other graphs very dense forestation.
I’m from that exact place.
Lots of Forest. Were swamps centuries ago ( up until the 1800’s )
Wine. Lots of them. Lots of castle, some being very renowned.
Low density outside of Bordeaux and the small cities ( above 10.000 inhabitants but under 100.000 ) who are along the coast. Inside ? Lots of tiny village under 2.500 inhabitants )
Space set aside for the English to resume their 316 reign, rudely interrupted by France annexation. The first wave will be the Boriswave that France has so steadily been providing.
“Who are they who fight boldly? The Angevins. Who are they who overcome enemies? The Angevins. Who are they who spare the vanquished? The Angevins.”
Short answer – it was swamps and a common flooding zone.
Long answer – there’s a vid on YouTube that explains why this part of their coastline is almost perfectly flat.
Basically that was a swamp and now it’s the largest man-made forest in Europe
Haunted?
What about the Germany-bordering region? Was it always like this or only after the war?
It’s a swamp.
Local politicians dont want mass influx of immigrants in that area
We don’t talk about the triangle here. The is **no** triangle.
During the feudal times this was owned by the English (it was called back then “Aquitaine”). The area that you drew in green is in french called “le triangle alimentaire anglais”. They way of eating is still very much influenced by an English breakfast. That’s why its sparsely populated.
[A very informative video about it](https://youtu.be/J6VwZwzpRiQ?si=uEsS77KAtmSsGMps)
It’s the Landes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park. There’s a recent mini-doc about it on YT, it was released about a month ago.
[Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VwZwzpRiQ&pp=ygUSbGFuZGVzIGRlIGdhc2NvZ25l)
I live on the coast right below the Bermud-Landes Triangle, so here’s an anecdote:
This big artificial forest (the Landes) created its own microclimate. So where I live you can literally see the forest’s limits in the sky
Second anecdote: an awful lot of Parisians got trapped there, thinking life in the forest would be glorious. Turns out forest + ancient marshes = comically high humidity eating your walls, clothes, etc. The coast is awesome though
Actually, that part used to be very different, it was like some kind of swampy lake, it was “polderized” in the 19th century. As far as I know, the government used that place as military experiment.
https://youtu.be/J6VwZwzpRiQ?si=kABNGBdAkVogadZk
National park.
It’s effectively a huge forest.
[Why is this coastline so straight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6VwZwzpRiQ=), by Vicuriosity on youtube with 500k views.
>This is the story of one of the world’s largest environmental engineering experiments: the Landes forest in France. Once a swampy wasteland, now a pine-covered “paradise” … but at what cost?
Saw it 5 weeks ago.
TLDR: It’s a swamp
Because they call it a ch*colatine and had to be eliminated
The Black Prince got a little too eager on his pillaging trips.
For me its even stranger to see that big kinda-white area east of Paris
There is really cool places in there like Arcachon and the Pilat Dune !
Tasty looking crepe
What I’d like to know is why would anyone use this colour/texture scheme for a map?! It looks like some kind of necrotic/rotting piece of flesh that’s been cut in the shape of France