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The Canary Islands ( / kəˈnɛəri /, Spanish: Canarias, [kaˈnaɾjas] ⓘ ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco and the Western Sahara.
While Plato's story explicitly locates Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, location hypotheses include Helike, Thera, Troy, and the North Pole . A 17th century artwork of Olof Rudbeck dissecting the world and revealing the secret location of Atlantis (which he believed to be hidden in Sweden).
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2 ), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
Las Palmas (UK: / ˌ l æ s ˈ p æ l m ə s,-ˈ p ɑː l-/, US: / ˌ l ɑː s ˈ p ɑː l m ə s,-m ɑː s /; Spanish: [las ˈpalmas]), officially Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is a Spanish city and capital of Gran Canaria, in the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean.
Lanzarote is located 11 km (7 mi) north-east of Fuerteventura and just over 1 km ( 5⁄8 mi) from La Graciosa. The dimensions of the island are 60 km (37 mi) from north to south and 25 km (16 mi) from west to east. Lanzarote has 213 kilometres (132 miles) of coastline, of which 10 km (6 mi) are sand, 16.5 km ( 10+1⁄4 mi) are beach, and the ...
The geology of the Canary Islands is dominated by volcanic rock. The Canary Islands are a 450 km (280 mi) long, east-west trending, archipelago of volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, 100–500 km (60–310 mi) off the coast of Northwest Africa. [1] The islands are located on the African tectonic plate.
Phoenix Islands. / 4.500°S 172.000°W / -4.500; -172.000. Canton Island (pop. 20) The Phoenix Islands, [1] or Rawaki, are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs that lie east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, north of Samoa. They are part of the Republic of Kiribati.
Islands of the European Union around the Atlantic coast of NW Africa: Canary Islands, Spain: Central El Hierro; Fuerteventura 2; Lanzarote; San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife 1; Santa Cruz de La Palma 2; Madeira archipelago, Portugal; Ceuta, Melilla, and Plazas de soberanía, Spain. Pantelleria and the Pelagie Islands, Italy