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    the Desertas Islands is a chain of three long and narrow islands that stretch over a north/south distance of 22.3 kilometres (13.9 mi). The Desertas Islands...
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    Deserta Grande island The Deserta Grande Island is the main island of the Desertas Islands archipelago, a small chain of three islands in the Portuguese...
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    Madeira (redirect from Madeira islands)
    (2011 Census). Desertas Islands (14.2 km2 or 5.5 sq mi), including the three uninhabited islands: Deserta Grande Island, Bugio Island and Ilhéu de Chão...
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    Russia Desertas Islands, Portugal Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island in the world at 55,247 km2 Gotska Sandön, Sweden Heard Island and McDonald...
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    The island has breeding Desertas petrels. Deserta Grande Island Ilhéu Chão — Chão islet. Madeirabirds.com: Desertas Islands boat trips Madeiraarchipelago...
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    the second-largest island with an area of 42.2 square kilometres (16.3 sq mi). The Desertas Islands are a chain of three narrow islands about 25 kilometres...
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    the minor islands of Ireland Madeira (Portugal) Madeira Island, Porto Santo, Desertas, Selvagens Rockall São Tomé and Príncipe Faroe Islands (Denmark)...
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    at all. However, P. feae is very closely related to Zino's petrel and Desertas petrel, two other species recently split from P. mollis. The gadfly petrels...
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    endemic Desertas wolf spider, Hogna ingens". Journal for Nature Conservation. 22 (6): 516–524. doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2014.08.005. Biggi, Emanuele. "The island of...
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    sailed from London on 18 July. They made brief landfalls at Bugio Island (Desertas Islands) and Madeira, but Brown was disappointed to collect almost nothing...
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    Ilhéu Chão (category Islands of the Autonomous Region of Madeira)
    the Desertas Islands, a small chain of islands which are in turn within the Madeira archipelago. Chão is located to the southeast of Madeira Island. The...
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    including Porto Santo and the Desertas Islands, and has been recorded on the Savage Islands. In the Azores, it is common on all islands. The population has been...
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    fluid. The forms breeding in Macaronesia on Madeira, Bugio in the Desertas Islands, and in the Cape Verde archipelago were long considered to be subspecies...
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    Camacha Caniço (city) Gaula Santa Cruz (city) (includes the offshore Desertas Islands) Santo António da Serra Agriculture and fishing are still considered...
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    contrast, the Canary Islands and the Madeira islands (the latter of which also include the Desertas Islands and the Savage Islands) off the Atlantic coast...
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    Atlantic Ocean Passing just south of  Bermuda Passing just south of the Desertas Islands, Madeira,  Portugal 32°0′N 9°22′W / 32.000°N 9.367°W / 32.000; -9...
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    Crassulaceae endemic to the Madeira archipelago (Madeira Island, Porto Santo Island and Desertas Islands). It is a biennial or perennial glandular-pubescent...
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    subfossil sample from eastern Madeira Island, nine became extinct following the arrival of humans. On the Desertas Islands, of forty-five land snail species...
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    Flores Madeira Porto Santo Desertas Deserta Grande Island Bugio Island Ilhéu Chão Cal Islet Northeast Group Selvagem Grande Island Ilhéu Sinho (Sinho Islet)...
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    impact on the species on a population level. The large colony in the Desertas Islands suffers intense human exploitation for food or fish bait, which also...
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    municipality, including uninhabited islands: Berlengas to Peniche, Desertas Islands to Santa Cruz, Selvagens Islands to Funchal, and Formigas Islets to...
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  • Santo Island, the Desertas Islands and the Savage Islands), is associated with Africa. The Azores Autonomous Region can be split as two island groups...
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    individuals which may support the small, but growing, nucleus in the Desertas Islands – roughly 20 individuals). Some individuals may be using coastal areas...
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    Canary Islands (part of Spain), and Cape Verde (an independent country). Numerous animal species have disappeared from the Macaronesian islands as part...
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    (Porto Santo Island) Desertas Deserta Grande, 32°31′11″N 16°30′27″W / 32.5197°N 16.5075°W / 32.5197; -16.5075 (Deserta Grande Island) Bugio, 32°25′35″N...
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    civil parish, including uninhabited islands: Selvagens Islands to Sé, and Berlengas to Peniche, Desertas Islands to Santa Cruz, and Formigas Islets to...
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    Câmara de Lobos (category Madeira Island)
    to the Mediterranean, but today confined to a small colony on the Desertas Islands. The municipality was created by ministerial decree on 25 May 1835...
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  • The Desertas petrel (Pterodroma deserta) is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus which breeds on Bugio Island in the Desertas off Madeira. The gadfly...
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    the Black Sea, including all offshore islands within the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, Madeira, Desertas, Porto Santo, and as far west as the Azores...
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    and led to the inclusion of the islands in the Madeira Natural Park in 1986. Zino also visited the Desertas Islands, studying the Fea's petrel (Pterodroma...
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