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It is home to a critically endangered subspecies, the Todos Santos Island Kingsnake, of the California mountain kingsnake. [5] The type species of the fish genus Bajacalifornia, Bajacalifornia burragei, was discovered during the USS Albatross deep sea expedition off the coast of Todos Santos Bay in 1911. [citation needed]
The resort is owned by the Villa Group. It was opened in November 1994 and is located in North Male' Atoll, which is 9.6 kilometres (6 miles) from Malé International Airport . Paradise Island is 932 metres (3,058 ft) long and 201 metres (659 ft) wide with total area 201.508 square metres (2,169 sq ft).
The islet is located between 500 metres (1,600 ft) and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) off the south-central coast of the island of São Miguel, adjacent the municipality, town, and port of Vila Franca do Campo. [2] [4] [5] The semicircular islet measures approximately 5 hectares (12 acres) [5] or 6 hectares (15 acres) [1] in area.
The surf break at Waimea Bay was significant in the development of big wave surfing. Larger surf at the bay went unridden for years until November 7, 1957 [4] when a handful of surfers finally paddled out and rode the giant waves that break off the northern point of the bay. While the surf only breaks big several times a year, Waimea was the ...
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia is the largest coral reef system in the world [6] and a popular tourist destination. [7] In the 1980s, Australian tour operators wished to further exploit the reef's tourism potential through making trips faster and shorter, or through creating off-shore accommodation for tourists. [8]
Santa Maria was the first island in the archipelago to be discovered by Diogo Silves in 1427. [3] By 2 July 1439, a royal charter from Infante D. Pedro, regent of D. Afonso V, referred to the fact that Prince Henry the Navigator had ordered that sheep be set ashore along the seven islands of the Azores (since Corvo and Flores had, at the time, not been discovered). [3]
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Villa Winter (Spanish: Casa de los Winter) is a villa situated in a remote location of the southwestern part of the island of Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, near the village of Cofete on the Jandía peninsula. The villa was designed and built by Gustav Winter, a reclusive German engineer, born in 1893 in the Black Forest region of Germany. The ...