Monchique Islet
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Monchique Islet is a small uninhabited islet off the coast of the island of Flores, west of the village of Fajã Grande, in the western part of the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. It is the weste
The waters around Monchique, showing the vertical prominence of the islet
Corvo Island
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Corvo Island is the smallest and the northernmost island of the Azores archipelago and the northernmost in Macaronesia. It has a population of 435 inhabitants making it the smallest single municipalit
Monchique Islet
…Fanaes or Fanais Port) and Fajã Grande. The islet is located on the North American Plate between the two westernmost Azorean islands of Flores and Corvo. The islet is a solid monolith of black basaltic rock consisting of a vertical wall formation, remnants of a coastal volcanic cone eroded by ocean…
The island of Corvo as seen from the Corvo-Flores Channel
The perspective from the island of Flores
The view of the pasturelands of Zimbral
A panorama of the Caldeirão, the remnants of the last Plinian eruption on the island of Corvo, as seen from the crater rim around Malaguetas