The airfield also has a small commercial terminal handling scheduled and chartered passenger flights from the other islands in the Azores, Europe, Africa, and North America.

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.

** Lagoa das sete cidades on Azores islands ( Portugal )

It has been criticised on the grounds that it in fact excludes most of the islands in the North Atlantic, including Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the Azores, and also that the only island referred to by the term that is actually in the North Atlantic Ocean is Ireland.

* Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores in the Azores.

* Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

A multinational task force of engineers, mathematicians, and historians gathered on the Azores islands to discuss stabilisation methods.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, colonists from Europe also settled on the otherwise uninhabited islands of the Atlantic such as Madeira and the Azores, where with no slaves to sell, exporting products for export became the main industry.

Portuguese territory also includes a series of archipelagoes in the Atlantic Ocean ( the Azores and Madeira ), which are strategic islands along western sea approaches to the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Csb pattern can be found north of that river, Costa Vicentina in coastal Southern Portugal, and the eastern group of the Azores islands.

The Robin occurs in Eurasia east to Western Siberia, south to Algeria and on the Atlantic islands as far west as the Azores and Madeira.

They have colonised most of the world's oceanic islands, reaching eastern Polynesia and the Chatham Islands in the Pacific, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Réunion in the Indian Ocean, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean.

Portuguese immigration, from Atlantic islands including the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands, began in the 19th century to provide labour for the nascent agricultural industry.

This is because it is far older than other islands formed on the ridge, which lie much closer to the ridge ( including Iceland, The Azores, Ascension Island, etc .).

Beaked whales are known to congregate in deep waters off the edge of continental shelves, and bottom features, such as seamounts, canyons, escarpments, and oceanic islands, including the Azores and the Canary Islands.

On the Spanish-born Pope Alexander VI decreed in the bull Inter caetera that all lands west and south of a pole-to-pole line 100 leagues west and south of any of the islands of the Azores or the Cape Verde Islands should belong to Spain, although territory under Christian rule as of Christmas 1492 would remain untouched.

In the Azores, it is common on all islands.

Junius sent Pierpont to the Azores ( Portuguese islands in the Atlantic ) in order for him to recover.

Philip, at the time also king of Portugal, was accused of cruelty for his hanging on yardarms of supporters of the rival contender for the throne of Portugal, on the Azores islands, following the Battle of Ponta Delgada.

* Formigas, in the Azores islands

By 1831 the liberals had taken over all the islands of the Azores.

Pico is 46 kilometers long, and at its maximum extent about 16 kilometers wide, rising from its center to the west in the summit of the stratovolcano of Pico ; making it the second largest of the Azores islands.

The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly or but officially or, ), also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two emerged parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau.

By the end of the period three clearly defined tribal dialectical areas: Northern Estonia, Southern Estonia, and Western Estonia including the islands had emerged, the population of each having formed its own understanding of identity.

A similar pattern emerged in a study in 2009 based on morphology, including color, dermal denticles and teeth: A smaller species, up to about in width, M. alfredi is found in the Indo-Pacific and tropical east Atlantic, and a larger, up to at least in width, M. birostris is found throughout tropical, subtropical and warm temperate oceans, but it has not yet been documented from most islands in the southwest Pacific.

The granite islands are the world ’ s oldest ocean islands, while the outer islands are mainly very young, though the Aldabra group and St Pierre ( Farquhar Group ) are unusual, raised coral islands that have emerged and submerged several times during their long history, the most recent submergence dating from about 125, 000 years ago.

The area has been populated since the first mountaintops emerged as islands from the sea after the end of the last Ice Age, during the Mesolithic.

Adelsö at that time consisted of small islands which emerged from the sea at the end of the Ice Age.

By the early Archaic Period Rhodes and Kos emerged as the major islands in the group, and in the 6th century BC the Dorians founded three major cities on Rhodes ( Lindos, Kameiros and Ialyssos ).

This genus consists of a group that has been evolving there ever since the first islands emerged from the sea over 20 million years ago.

This group may have invaded the area several times, as many of the species were so specialised that they may have diverged on hot spot islands before the Mascarenes emerged form the sea.

Because settlers from United States, Europe and other Pacific islands preceded ethnic Japanese residents, an English-lexified pidgin ( creole ), the Ogasawara Mixed Language ( OML ) emerged on the islands during the 19th century.

The islands of Corvo and Flores emerged from a submarine mount oriented along a north-northeast to south-southwest, while Corvo is controlled by a faults oriented north to south, parallel to the mid-Atlantic Ridge, and transform faults oriented west to east which crosscut secondary cones on outer slopes.

It emerged from a series of hybrid Viking / Gaelic rulers of the west coast and islands of Scotland in the Middle Ages, who wielded sea-power with fleets of galleys.

The lagoon is comparatively open, containing scattered shoal patches and no emerged islands ; the bottom is muddy and the average depth is from 30 to 34 fathoms ( 55 to 62 m ).

) Geologists believe that the island emerged around 2000 BCE, soon after the sea level stopped rising, as the sand built up to form new barrier islands on the southern Florida coast.

In the 7th century an independent Muslim state emerged in the archipleago, but it was subsequently conquered by Yemen, then intermittently by the Kingdom of Medri-Bahri ( Land of the Sea ) 1517, when the Ottoman Turks conquered them and placed the islands under the rule of the Pasha at Suakin as part of the province of Habesh.

The Arabian chronicler, Ibn Battuta, writing on the Riau islands in the 13th century states: " Here there are little islands, from which armed black pirates with poised arrows emerged, possessing armed warships ; they plunder people but do not enslave them.

The storm crossed over the island and emerged as a weak hurricane after drenching the islands.

This hypothesis that the islands and their biota emerged some 30 MYA during the Oligocene better explains the organisms that occur in New Caledonian biota.

Still influenced by Paley, he assumed that variants emerged perfect, and developed the hypothesis that, for example, where every island in the Galápagos Archipelago had its own kind of tortoise, these had originated from a single tortoise species and had adapted to life on the different islands in different ways.