Crossword clues for azores
azores
- Portuguese archipelago
- Islands near Portugal
- Island group that includes São Miguel
- São Miguel is the largest of them
- Portuguese island chain
- Chain on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- They're west of Lisbon
- São Miguel's islands
- Portuguese North Atlantic islands
- Portuguese islands in the Atlantic
- Portuguese chain
- North Atlantic islands, part of Portugal
- Mid-Atlantic islands
- Islands to which canaries are native
- Islands in the Atlantic Ocean
- Island group whose capital is Ponta Delgada
- Island group administered by Portugal
- Island chain that's home to Portugal's highest mountain
- Fayal, Ponta Delgada, Horta, etc
- Columbus landfall of 1493
- Atlantic Ocean islands
- As zero (anag)
- Archipelago west of Portugal
- Archipelago that's a part of Portugal
- Islands west of Portugal
- Portuguese islands in the North Atlantic
- Islands off Portugal
- They're Portuguese
- Ponta Delgada's locale
- Ponta Delgada is its biggest city
- Islands belonging to Portugal
- Native home of the canary
- Home of SГЈo Miguel Island
- Santa Maria's chain
- Columbus stopping point of 1493
- Santa Maria is one of them
- Islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal
- Home of São Miguel Island
- Ponta Delgada is its capital
- Atlantic islands
- Atlantic island group owned by Portugal
- Flores, Corvo et al.
- Group of islands in the middle of the north Atlantic
- Cut-throat maybe exposed on small island chain
- Portuguese mid-Atlantic archipelago
- Portuguese Atlantic islands
- Portuguese island group
Wiktionary
n. An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic and an autonomous region of Portugal comprising this archipelago, officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores.
Wikipedia
The Azores ( or ; , ), officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores (), is one of the two autonomous regions of Portugal, composed of nine volcanic islands in the North Atlantic Ocean about west of continental Portugal, about northwest of Madeira, about southeast of Newfoundland, to Cape Verde, about east of New York City and about northeast of Brazil.
Its main industries are agriculture, dairy farming (for cheese and butter products primarily), livestock ranching, fishing, and tourism, which is becoming the major service activity in the region. In addition, the government of the Azores employs a large percentage of the population directly or indirectly in the service and tertiary sectors. The main settlement of the Azores is Ponta Delgada.
There are nine major Azorean islands and an islet cluster, in three main groups. These are Flores and Corvo, to the west; Graciosa, Terceira, São Jorge, Pico, and Faial in the centre; and São Miguel, Santa Maria, and the Formigas Reef to the east. They extend for more than and lie in a northwest-southeast direction.
All the islands have volcanic origins, although some, such as Santa Maria, have had no recorded activity since the islands were settled. Mount Pico, on the island of Pico, is the highest point in Portugal, at . The Azores are actually some of the tallest mountains on the planet, measured from their base at the bottom of the ocean to their peaks, which thrust high above the surface of the Atlantic.
The climate of the Azores is very mild for such a northerly location, being influenced by its distance to continents and the passing Gulf Stream. Due to the marine influence, temperatures remain mild year-round. Daytime temperatures normally fluctuate between and depending on season. Temperatures above or below are unknown in the major population centres. It is also generally wet and cloudy.
The culture, dialect, cuisine, and traditions of the Azorean islands vary considerably, because these once-uninhabited and remote islands were settled sporadically over a span of two centuries.
Usage examples of "azores".
Jago, one of the Azores, a horizontal, calcareous stratum occurs, containing shells of recent marine species, covered by a great sheet of basalt eighty feet thick.
It rises about 9000 feet above the great Atlantic depths around it, and in the Azores, St.
Helena, contains even now great volcanoes--as in Iceland, the Azores, the Canaries, etc.
Atlantis contained volcanoes, of which the peaks of the Azores are the surviving representatives, it is not improbable that the convulsion which drowned it in the sea was accompanied by great discharges of water.
The fact that Correira was Portuguese, and a Portuguese from the Azores at that, had the same effect on Fall River residents as the Jewish rumors surrounding Leather Apron had had on the East Enders of London during the Whitechapel murders.
It was later documented that Correira had not entered the United States from the Azores until April 1893, eight months after the Borden murders.
Sahara complete, the hypersonic spy plane would make another pass over the Mideast - this pilot made the Mideast run at least once a week - then turn and head for a second tanker rendezvous west of the Azores on the way back to Nevada.
The few peaks of this range which man could see were called a chain of islands, the Azores, St.
No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
Of course there were no charts for the western ocean, for no one who had sailed beyond the Azores or the Canaries or the Cape Verde Islands ever returned.
He devoured the rumors of a dead sailor washed ashore in the Azores or Canaries or Cape Verdes, a waterlogged chart tucked into his clothing showing western islands reached before his ship sank, the stories of floating logs from unknown species of tree, of flocks of land birds far away to the south or west, of corpses of drowned men with rounder faces than any seen in Europe, dark and yet not as black of skin as Africans, either.
They are labeled with the names of the cities where they terminate: Faial in the Azores, Brest in France, Bilbao in Spain, Gibraltar 1, Saint John's in Newfoundland, the Isles of Scilly, two cables to Carcavelos in Portugal, Vigo in Spain, Gibraltar 2 and 3.
The most famous abandoned ship was the Marie Celeste, a brigantine transporting commercial alcohol from New York to Italy, found crewless between the Azores and Portugal in 1872.
He decided he would sack up Hassan, weight him in the harbor at Ponta Delgada while there was only an anchor watch aboard, and dump him in deep water when he cleared the Azores.
The mariner's compass had now been invented and men were no longer left to the mercy of a fine night and the stars to determine the direction in which they were sailing, and the Normans, Catalonians and Genoese and Portuguese had already pushed out into the Atlantic as far as the Canary Isles, Madeira and the Azores.