Island of Riou

The island of Riou is an uninhabited French island located at the south of Marseilles, with broad of the solid mass of the Calanques, it constitutes the southern end of the commune of Marseilles ().
It is approximately 2 km long on 500 m broad. Its culminating point is to 191,4 Mr.

Riou is the largest island of the archipelago of the same name also including/understanding:

  • the island of Earthenware jar (at the bottom on the right on the photograph)
  • the island Calseraigne , or Planes (one distinguishes it right in front of Riou)
  • the island of Mayor and several small islands: Jarron (invisible, beside Earthenware jar), the small and the Large-Congloué (visible on the left), Moyade and Moyadons (hidden by Earthenware jar), and the Emperors (with broad).

The archipelago of Riou, located at the south of the Solid mass of the Creeks, is property of the Academy of Littoral Space and of the Lake Shores, its management was entrusted since 1993 to the Academy-Studies Ecosystems of Provence. The terrestrial part of the site is classified in National Natural reserve by ministerial decree of August 29th, 2003. The classification in National Natural reserve made it possible to obtain a reinforcement of the legal protection of the site, adapted to the objectives of conservation of the natural heritage. The regulation confines the unloading of the yachtmen on some littoral sectors accessible on the islands from Riou, Plane and Earthenware jar.

The island of Riou was used as station of monitoring of the coasts (one finds vestiges of cistern there, of a tower). It is today property of the Conservatoire littoral, and is visited more only for the marine ethology and the Plongée underwater

Underwater inheritance

The site is a high-place of the underwater Archéologie.
  • the loading (Amphore S) of two stray S which had sunk with the foot of falling from the Large-Congloué (explored by Jacques Yves Cousteau) as from 1952, first excavation underwater Archéologique scientific, is exposed to the Musée of the Roman docks with Marseilles.
  • It is in the east of this island that were found the remainders of the plane P-38 of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Internal bonds

External bond

  • Site of the museum of the Roman docks

References

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