The tide of the century: the water raises 14 meters around Mont Saint-Michel

by Robert Maggi

December 25, 2015

The tide of the century: the water raises 14 meters around Mont Saint-Michel
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The one showed in this spectacular timelapse is called the "Tide of the Century", a natural phenomenon that occurs once at intervals of decades when the sun aligns with the Moon and the Earth. The last was in 1997 and thousands of paople had gathered at Mont Saint-Michel, the famous small town in northern France that lives in between the sea and the mainland.

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