Sankt-Petersinsel
__NOTOC__ St. Peter's Island (french: Île Saint-Pierre; german: Sankt Petersinsel) is a peninsula and former island situated in Lake Biel in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. It has a length of about and a maximum width of . Its highest point is above sea level or above lake level (). It was formed in the last Ice Age (see Pleistocene), when the Rhône Glacier reached as far as the Jura mountains. It is a promontory of the ''Jolimont'', above Erlach. Politically the island is split between the municipalities of Erlach and Twann-Tüscherz, the largest part belonging to the latter municipality. In the late nineteenth century, following the engineering works of the Jura water correction, the water-level of the three lakes of the Seeland have dropped enough to clear the until-then hidden isthmus, linking Cerlier to St. Peter's Island, which has ever since become a peninsula, although separated from the shore by a canal. Monks of the Cluniac order were the first inhabitants of ...
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Erlach, Switzerland
Erlach (french: Cerlier) is the capital municipality of the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. History The nearby Jolimont hills, a long range of hills, have been nearly constantly inhabited for thousands of years. In 1847, three gr