Urk, that's my fault. I must have seen coverage from Saint-Dénis and become confused.
I'll rewrite this and the caption (there are no nice images of Saint-André, it seems, so I'll just reword).
Thanks for the heads-up! Joe
On 6 August 2015 at 17:49, Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
Le jeudi 6 août 2015, 17:14:22 Joe Sutherland a écrit :
• Plane parts found on the French territory Réunion were this week
Just a quick note: I noticed that the caption for this item in the blog post said:
"The parts were discovered on the coast of Saint-Denis, the island’s capital."
Reunion is a "département", not a state, so it doesn't have a capital (the only "capital" in France is Paris ;). The département's seat city is a "préfecture". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Departments_of_France#General_characteristics )
However, after looking into this a bit (I lived there for a few years, so this is of interest to me), we may not even need to go into the intricacies of French administrative divisions, since the debris seem to have actually been found in Saint-André, not Saint-Denis (according to the WP article about Flight 370, and the relevant sources). Saint-André is a smaller city on the east coast of the island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Andr%C3%A9,_R%C3%A9union
I'm not sure if you want to edit the blog post, but I thought I'd mention it.
-- Guillaume Paumier