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The islands form the Macaronesia ecoregion with the Azores, Cape Verde, Madeira, and the Savage Isles. [34] The Canary Islands is the largest and most populated archipelago of the Macaronesia region. [8] The archipelago has seven large and several smaller islands, all of which are volcanic in origin. [35]
La Palma is a 2024 Netflix miniseries inspired by the Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard hypothesis and partially based on the 2021 Cumbre Vieja volcanic eruption. [1] [2] [3] The series, primarily filmed on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands, [4] also includes scenes shot in Tenerife. [5]
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:
According to Pliny the Younger, Berber king Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira; he named the Canary Islands for the particularly ferocious dogs (canaria) on the island. [19] Juba II and the ancient Romans called the island of Tenerife Nivaria , from the Latin word nix ( nsg. ; gsg. nivis , npl. nives ), meaning "snow ...
La Palma, like the other islands of the Canary Islands archipelago, is a volcanic ocean island. The volcano rises almost 7 km (4 mi) above the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. [ 6 ] There is road access from sea level to the summit at 2,426 m (7,959 ft), [ 7 ] which is marked by an outcrop of rocks called Roque de Los Muchachos ("Rock of the Young ...
The Îlots des Apôtres or Îles des Apôtres (English: Apostle Islets or Islands) are a group of small and uninhabited rocky islands in the north-western part of the Crozet Archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, 10 km (6.2 mi) north of Île aux Cochons. Their total area is about 2 km 2 (0.77 sq mi).
Date: 17 January 2016: Source: Own work, DEM from NASA SRTM V3.0 - 1 arcsec, coasts and roads from Opentreetmap, island names from Les îles Chausey sur la carte du diocèse de Coutances de Mariette de la Pagerie, 1689 and Les îles Chausey sur la carte de Herman van Loon, 1753., situation map from File:France relief location map.jpg (author: User:Sting), symbols from File:Maps template-fr.svg
On May 11, 1999, Alliance Atlantis Communications (AAC) and Premier Choix Networks (a division of Astral Media) were granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a French-language subscription network called Canal Fiction, described as a "service devoted to drama."