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A satellite image of the Canary Islands. The Canary hotspot, also called the Canarian hotspot, is a hotspot and volcanically active region centred on the Canary Islands located off the north-western coast of Africa. Hypotheses for this volcanic activity include a deep mantle plume beginning about 70 million years ago.
Google Earth is a web and computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based primarily on satellite imagery.The program maps the Earth by superimposing satellite images, aerial photography, and GIS data onto a 3D globe, allowing users to see cities and landscapes from various angles.
The Canary Islands (/ k ə ˈ n ɛər i /, Spanish: Canarias, Spanish: [kaˈnaɾjas]), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Morocco.
The Canary Islands are built upon one of the oldest regions of Earth's oceanic crust (175–147 Ma), part of the slow-moving African Plate, in the continental rise section of Northwest Africa's passive continental margin. [9] [10] The rocks under and in the Canary Islands are a record of multiple periods of volcanic activity:
View of Puerto de Mogán Puerto de Mogán Puerto de Mogán from an airplane. Puerto de Mogán is a picturesque fishing village and popular marina in the municipality of Mogán, set at the mouth of a steep-sided valley on the south-west coast of the island of Gran Canaria. [1] [2]
Module:Location map/data/Canary Islands is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Canary Islands. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GranTeCan or GTC) is a 10.4 m (410 in) reflecting telescope located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, Spain. It is the world's largest single-aperture optical telescope. [1] Construction of the telescope took seven years and cost €130 million.
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