What is "chameau"

Chameau (French for "camel") may refer to:

• Jean-Lou Chameau (born 1953), civil engineer and president of the California Institute of Technology
• French ship Chameau, a sailing ship that sank in 1725
• Chameau, an armed French vessel captured by in 1804 during the Napoleonic Wars
• Chameau, les Saintes, a mountain on Terre-de-Haut Island in the Caribbean Sea
• Chameau Island, near Antarctica
• Le Chameau, a mountain on Koh Rong Sanloem, a Cambodian island
• Chameau, a method of reducing a ship's draught with flotation tanks - see Gun port

Chameau (literally: Camel) is a mountain located on Terre-de-Haut Island on the archipelago of Îles des Saintes with the height of 306 meters (1,004 feet).It is the most elevated hill of the archipelago. Chameau is situated in the Southwest of Terre-de-Haut island and is covered with forest. In the summit, there is an ancient watchtower, called La tour modèle (literally: Model tower) where we have a magnificent panorama on the archipelago.

Today, Chameau is the property of the Conservatoire du littoral and is a protected site category IV IUCN.