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Map of the Azores Islands (1584) by Abraham Ortelius. The following article describes the history of the Azores, an archipelago composed of nine volcanic islands in the Macaronesia region of the North Atlantic Ocean, about 1,400 km (870 mi) west of Lisbon, about 1,500 km (930 mi) northwest of Morocco, and about 1,930 km (1,200 mi) southeast of Newfoundland, Canada.
The Azores temperate mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of southwestern Europe. It encompasses the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. These volcanic islands are an autonomous region of Portugal, and lie 1500 km west of the Portuguese mainland.
Spain held the Azores under the Iberian Union from 1580 to 1642 (called the "Babylonian captivity" in the Azores). The Azores were the last part of the Portuguese Empire to resist Philip's reign over Portugal (Macau resisted any official recognition), until the defeat of forces loyal to the Prior of Crato with the Conquest of the Azores in 1583.
The Azores archipelago rises from Azores Plateau, which is an area of thickened oceanic crust thought to have formed over the last 20 Mya. Negative velocity S-wave anomalies have been mapped beneath the Azores in the upper 250–300 km. This has been suggested to be a signature of a plume that created the Azores Plateau. [3]
Macaronesia (Portuguese: Macaronésia; Spanish: Macaronesia) is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. [1] [2] Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands, which were formed by seamounts on the ocean floor whose peaks have risen above the ocean's ...
Black: Bar Harbor: Hancock: R: 79-658: Black: Jonesport: Washington: R: 63-700: Black: Friendship: Knox: R: Campsites, walking trails. The island is undeveloped now, but originally belonged to a lobsterman and his wife. There is a "Lilac Campsite" on the western shore, where they once had a homestead. Owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Open ...
Thus these, the longest faults under the Atlantic Ocean have a total offset of the system of over 340 km (210 mi). [ 3 ] : 2 The northern rift mountains of the fracture zone are higher than those in the south, [ 2 ] : 193 as part of a geological transition in the North Atlantic sea floor which is higher to the north of the fracture zone.
Location map of the islet of Monchique near the island of Flores The islet is located more than 1.6 kilometres (1.0 mi) north-northwest of the island of Flores, in a bay between Ponta de Fenais ( Point Fanaes or Fanais Port ) [ 6 ] and Fajã Grande.