Basse-Terre

[ bahs-tair; French bahs-ter ]

noun

1. a seaport in and the capital of Guadeloupe, in the French West Indies.
2. Guadeloupe

Basse-Terre

/ ˈbæsˈtɛə; bɑstɛr /

noun

1. a mountainous island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands, comprising part of Guadeloupe. Area: 848 sq km (327 sq miles)
2. a port in W Guadeloupe, on Basse-Terre Island: the capital of the French Overseas Department of Guadeloupe. Pop: 12 410 (1999)

Example Sentences

A man was found dead on Saturday after his house was swept away by floods in the Basse-Terre district on Friday night, local authorities said on Saturday.

From Reuters

Guadeloupe’s prefect, Alexandre Rochatte, who represents the French government, said in a statement that armed groups had tried to loot stores in Pointe-a-Pitre, Basse-Terre and Lamentin and battled police.

From Reuters

What we know is that Boulogne, the illegitimate son of a wealthy French plantation owner and an enslaved African-Guadeloupean woman, was born between 1739 and ’49 on the island of Basse-Terre, the western half of the archipelago of Guadeloupe.

From New York Times

The two biggest are connected by a land bridge and form the shape of a butterfly: Grand-Terre, the flat island with white, sandy beaches, is the right wing; Basse-Terre, the mountainous, volcanic, rain forest island, is the left.

From Washington Post

The highest point on Basse-Terre is a volcano called La Grande Soufriere, and another day, we drove — the sunny zouk music a contrast to the perilous cliffside roads — to see what the island looked like from its peak.

From Washington Post