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Graciosa Island or commonly La Graciosa is a volcanic island in the Canary Islands of Spain, located 2 km (1.2 mi) north of the island of Lanzarote across the Strait of El Río. It was formed by the Canary hotspot.
A legend of the islands, however, states that it was the conquistadors who named the islands after a fierce tribe inhabiting the largest island of the group, known as the 'Canarii'. The colour canary yellow is in turn named after the yellow domestic canary , produced by a mutation which suppressed the melanins of the original dull greenish wild ...
Flags of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain and the Canary Islands. The flag of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands is a vertical tricolour of three equal bands of white, blue, and yellow. The state flag includes the coat of arms of the Canary Islands in the central band; the civil flag omits this. The designs were made official by the ...
The Canary Islands’ ashen climate lends unique notes to its carafes – taking the lava fields in her stride, Ellie Ross sprints and sips in Lanzarote’s La Geria region to discover the best of ...
Canary melon, a yellow fruit; Canary Current, a wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre; Canaries, players for or supporters of Norwich City F.C. Canary sack, white fortified wine imported from the Canary Islands; Canary wood (disambiguation), a name used to describe wood from a number of tree species
Lanzarote (UK: / ˌ l æ n z ə ˈ r ɒ t i /, [3] [4] Spanish: [lanθaˈɾote] ⓘ, locally [lansaˈɾote]) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 125 kilometres (80 miles) off the north coast of Africa and 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) from the Iberian Peninsula.
Canary Islands (top-left, ringed in red) in relation to Africa Map of the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands are a 450 km-long (280 mi), east–west aligned archipelago of volcanic islands in the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean, 100–500 km (60–310 mi) off the coast of Northwest Africa. [5]
Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands archipelago, with a surface area of 2,034.38 km 2 (785 sq mi) [76] and has the longest coastline, amounting to 342 km (213 mi). [ 77 ] In addition, the highest point, Mount Teide, with an elevation of 3,715 m (12,188 ft) above sea level is the highest point in all of Spain, [ 78 ] is also the ...