an island on the coast of France, in the arrondissement of L'Orient and department of Morbihan. Its extent is about 75 square miles; and it contains three towns and thirteen villages, with 5650 inhabitants.

island of North America, lying at the mouth of the strait between the country of the Esquimaux, or New Britain, and the north end of Newfoundland; whence the straits also take the name of Belleisle. Long. 58. 5. W. Lat. 51. 50. N.