Desertas Islands
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Key facts
- Location
- Atlantic Ocean
- Area
- 14.21 km (5.49 sq mi)
- Length
- 22.34 km (13.881 mi)
- Width
- 1.34 km (0.833 mi)
- Autonomous region
- Madeira
- Municipality
- Santa Cruz
- Freguesia
- Santa Cruz
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Portugal
- Located in
- Madeira
- Area
- 14.21
- Elevation
- 442
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- Ilhas Desertas, el aero.JPG
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- Commons category
- Ilhas Desertas
- topic's main category
- Category:Ilhas Desertas
- located in/on physical feature
- Madeira
- significant place
- Funchal
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Encyclopedic overview
The Desertas Islands (Portuguese: Ilhas Desertas, IPA: [ˈiʎɐʒ ðɨˈzɛɾtɐʃ], "Deserted Islands") are a small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the larger Portuguese Madeira Archipelago.
The archipelago is located off the coast of Morocco. Deserta Grande Island is located about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southeast of the eastern tip of Madeira Island, Ponta de São Lourenço.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Desertas Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.