H2olidays

Somme

The  département  of Somme was created from a small part of the old province of  Artois  and largely from the historic province of  Picardie . 

The following cruise is possible:

-  Cappy  out and back 

It is located in the northwestern part of the Picardy region, and is bordered by the départements of Pas-de-Calais to the north, Aisne to the east, Oise to the south, Haute-Saône to the west and by 30 miles of the Channel to the northwest, where the Somme River estuary and the Bay of Somme account for most of the costal area. The département’s capital is Amiens .

The Somme River flows from the  département’s  east to its northwest, through the towns of  Péronne ,  Amiens  and  Abbeville . The  Authie  River, to the north, flows parallel to the Somme. To the south, the  Bresle  River parallels the Somme. The chalk plateau of  Picardie  covers most of the Somme  département , and in the southwest the chalk cliffs look out on the English Channel. The Channel’s shore line is covered by sand dunes and a number of small seaside resorts and harbors. Both the  Authie  and Somme estuaries have created marshland from silting.