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Flag of Gran Canaria. Gran Canaria (UK: / ˌ ɡ r æ n k ə ˈ n ɛər i ə,-ˈ n ɑːr-/, US: / ˌ ɡ r ɑː n k ə ˈ n ɑːr i ə,-ˈ n ɛər-/; [2] [3] Spanish: [ɡɾaŋ kaˈnaɾja] ⓘ), also Grand Canary Island, is the third-largest and second-most-populous island of the Canary Islands, [4] an archipelago off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa and is part of Spain.
Canary Islands (top-left, ringed in red) in relation to Africa Map of the Canary Islands. The Canary Islands are a 450 km-long (280 mi), east-west aligned archipelago of volcanic islands in the eastern part of the North Atlantic Ocean, 100–500 km (60–310 mi) off the coast of Northwest Africa. [5]
Google Trikes are also being used for the first time to map popular tourist destinations, such as the scenic Chapman's Peak Drive and Table Mountain in Cape Town, Soccer City in Johannesburg, and the new Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. Images of South Africa were made available on Google Street View on June 8, 2010. On December 8, 2010, more ...
The Dutch concentrated on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, attempting to burn it down. The Dutch pillaged Maspalomas, on the southern coast of Gran Canaria, San Sebastián on La Gomera, and Santa Cruz on La Palma, but eventually gave up the siege of Las Palmas and withdrew. Christian prisoners are sold as slaves in a square in Algiers.
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Module:Location map/data/Spain Gran Canaria is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Gran Canaria. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Cuatro Puertas and Montaña Bermeja are 6 km away from the east coast of the island of Gran Canaria, on the east side of the GC-100 road that links Telde (5 km north) to Ingenio (8 km south). The Cuatro Puertas hamlet, situated near the top of Montaña Bermeja, is of easy access: the GC-1 highway and Gran Canaria airport are only 6 km east. The ...
Located in the south-eastern quarter of Gran Canaria island, the valley starts at the Las Marteles crater (at around 1,500 m (4,921 ft) altitude) [1] and follows a N-W/S-E direction. [2] It separates the two Spanish municipalities of Ingenio and Agüimes , [ 1 ] with Agüimes on the south side.