* In 1984, five Argentines sail in a 10-meter-long raft made from tree trunks named Atlantis from Canary Islands and after 52 days journey arrived to Venezuela in an attempt to prove travelers from Africa may have crossed the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus.

* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.

* 1483 – Gran Canaria, the main island of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile.

*** Virgin of Candelaria, patron of the Canary Islands.

* B. b. insularum: Canary Islands

This occurs between November and March and is generally similar to the " Calima " affecting the Canary Islands.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest of macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

This laurisilva forests are found in the islands of Macaronesia in the eastern Atlantic, in particular the Azores, Madeira Islands, and western Canary Islands, from 400 m to 1200 m elevation.

From Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, Spain there are night flights on Mondays and Thursdays, with departures just after midnight.

), the continental part of Spain ( as opposed to the Balearic islands, the Canary Islands, Alboran, etc.

In 1815, the German geologist Leopold von Buch visited the Las Cañadas caldera of Teide on Tenerife, and the Caldera de Taburiente on La Palma, both in the Canary Islands.

The Caldera de Taburiente and the Caldereta, both in the island of La Palma ( Canary Islands ), are calderas emptied by a river of lava some 500, 000 years ago.

** See Europe for calderas in the Canary Islands

Sugar cane was introduced to Hispaniola from the Canary Islands, and the first sugar mill in the New World was established in 1516, on Hispaniola.

By the middle of the century, the population was bolstered by emigration from the Canary Islands, resettling the northern part of the colony and planting tobacco in the Cibao Valley, and importation of slaves was renewed.

Haeckel ( left ) with Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, his assistant, in the Canary Islands | Canaries, 1866.

From 1866 to 1867, Haeckel made an extended journey to the Canary Islands with Hermann Fol and during this period, met with Charles Darwin, in 1866 at Down House in Kent, Thomas Huxley and Charles Lyell.

Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa, politically part of Spain.

At 1, 660 km² it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife.

In 1852, the free trade zone was extended by Isabella II to the Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands obtained the right to self-govern in 1912.

Fuerteventura is the oldest island in the Canary Islands dating back 20 million years to a volcanic eruption from the Canary hotspot.

Together with the Siberian Stonechat and Canary Islands Stonechat it constitutes eastern and western representatives of an Eurasian lineage ; the Asian and European populations separated during the Late Pliocene or Early Pleistocene, roughly 1. 5-2. 5 mya, and Fuerteventura was colonised by western European or northwest African birds somewhat later in the Early Pleistocene, about 1-2 mya.

The Canary Islands Stonechat ( Saxicola dacotiae ), also known as the Fuerteventura Stonechat or Fuerteventura Chat, and formerly known as the Canary Islands Chat due to its once widespread distribution on the Canary Islands.

The Canary Islands Stonechat is a small passerine bird that was classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher in the Muscicapidae.

This Canary Islands Stonechat is highly faithful to good habitat.

This Canary Islands Stonechat is now considered Endangered, as construction, mainly tourism-related, encroaches upon the best habitat ( Illera et al., 2006 ).

# REDIRECT Canary Islands Stonechat

# REDIRECT Canary Islands Stonechat

* Canary Islands Stonechat or Fuerteventura Chat Saxicola dacotiae

# REDIRECT Canary Islands Stonechat

# REDIRECT Canary Islands Stonechat

However, there is no evidence that LDDC foresaw this scale of development and nearby Heron Quays had already been developed as low density offices when Canary Wharf was proposed, with similar development already underway on Canary Wharf itself, Limehouse Studios being the most famous occupant.

It is delivered to properties in the area and available to pick up from various locations in Canary Wharf, Greenwich and the Royal Docks.

The island is the least settled in the Canary Islands.

Most sing well and several are commonly seen cagebirds ; foremost among these is the domesticated Canary ( Serinus canaria domestica ).

* 1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of black natives in Canary Islands by Spanish natives, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.

The diminutive subspecies dacotiae, the sarnicolo of the eastern Canary Islands is peculiar for nesting occasionally in the dried fronds below the top of palm trees, apparently coexisting rather peacefully with small songbirds which also make their home there.

It is native to the Old World and is found from Cape Verde and the Canary Islands, southern Europe across to northern and eastern Africa, the Mediterranean, south west Asia to south east India.

The Church of the Guanche People is a pagan sect founded in 2001 in the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna ( Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain ).

A traditional Canary Islands dish is Canarian wrinkly potatoes or papas arrugadas.

The longest distance yet claimed to be achieved for quantum teleportation is in May 2012 between the two Canary Islands of La Palma and Tenerife off the Atlantic coast of north Africa.

Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe, occupying most ( about 85 percent ) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of north Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

Hassan I Airport is an international airport, but the carriers at the airport connects only to regional destinations ( to Morocco or the Canary Islands ).

** The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.

* April 29 – Gran Canaria, the main of the Canary Islands is conquered by the Kingdom of Castile, very important step in the expansion of Spain.

The American Goldfinch ( Spinus tristis ), also known as the Eastern Goldfinch and Wild Canary, is a small North American bird in the finch family.

Castilian identity is thus excluded from the historical nationalities of Spain such as Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque Country, but also other autonomous communities of Spain which due to historical reasons have their own strong identities, such as Andalusia, Asturias, Aragon, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and the Valencian Community.