Azores

How To Use Azores In A Sentence

• Weather has also contributed to the seclusion and peculiarity of the Azores - stormy winter seas often prevent access to the smaller islands even by air for days at a time.
• An obvious example is the almost semicircular boundary between North America and West Africa along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between the Azores and the Equator.
• The first ship to transmit an SOS distress call was the Cunard liner Slavonia on June 10, 1909, when it went aground on rocks off the Azores. Boing Boing
• With the exception of D. corleyi, which is endemic to the coast of northern Spain, all are Macaronesian relicts with a highly fragmented distribution in the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands, and on the southern European coast.
• If, for instance, the pressure is low towards Iceland and Greenland and high down by the Azores and Portugal, then most of northern Europe can expect strong westerly winds.
• Like other isolated islands, the Azores have functioned as a natural evolutionary laboratory - most of the native plant species are living fossils, phylogenetically primitive, and related to, though divergent from, the preglacial flora of Europe. Azores temperate mixed forests
• As a result of their isolation, most of the native plant species on the Azores are living fossils, phylogenetically primitive, and related to, though divergent from, the preglacial flora of Europe. Azores temperate mixed forests
• They had stop-overs in the Azores, Gander, Newfoundland and Boston, before they arrived in New York.
• A column of black ash and steam rises over the village of Capelo on the Azores island of Faial.
• From none of these can the reader derive any composite picture of the Azores.