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Macaronesia

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Country
Portugal
Time zone
UTC−01:00
Body of water
Atlantic Ocean
Image
Levada do Caldeirão Verde, Madeira (09611).jpg
Has parts of class
archipelago
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topic's main category
Category:Macaronesia
Commons category
Macaronesia
located in/on physical feature
Atlantic Ocean
different from
Micronesia
native label
Macaronesia
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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Etymology
  • Archipelagos
  • Geography and geology
  • Conservation issues
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • External links

thumb|240px|Macaronesia

Macaronesia (; ) is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands, which were formed by seamounts on the ocean floor whose peaks have risen above the ocean's surface.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macaronesia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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