Canary Islands
About Canary Islands
The Canary Islands or Canaries are an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and the southernmost autonomous community of Spain, located about 100 kilometres (60 mi) off the northwest coast of Africa. The archipelago has a population of approximately 2.27 million inhabitants, making it the most populous overseas special territory of the European Union.
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The highest point in Spain is in the Canary Islands, Mount Tied.
from No Such Thing As The Great Modesto, 2018-08-10 at 00:21:45 · read transcript
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No, they're good. They come from the Canary Islands, canaries, so that's where they were first imported from by the Spanish, who had the Canary Islands, and that's hence the name. It's so confusing, the Canary Islands are named after Canis, dogs, but then canaries, the birds are named after the islands. The Spanish would only ever export the males so they could have a proper monopoly on them.
No Such Thing As A Bored Shrew, 2019-08-16 · listen
The dragon's blood tree, there's different species of dragon's blood. There are still what we call in biology relic populations. Kind of populations that are on their last leg in Socotra, but there's different species of dragon's blood in the Canary Islands. There's another species in a one and kind of a remote part of a man. It looks like the dragon's blood tree was like a really dominant tree in the whole of kind of that old world.
No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone, 2023-06-15 · listen
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Coordinates: 28.0000, -15.7500