How To Use Azores In A Sentence
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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They had stop-overs in the Azores, Gander, Newfoundland and Boston, before they arrived in New York.
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A column of black ash and steam rises over the village of Capelo on the Azores island of Faial.
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From none of these can the reader derive any composite picture of the Azores.
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But high pressure from the Azores is building up, promising a drier weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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To put the case more concisely, the _Star of the North_ had been carried for the distance of _four degrees and a half_ exactly of longitude backward on her outward track to New York and some _two degrees_ or thereabouts to the southwards, placing us as nearly as possible in the position the skipper had already indicated, a direction of some five hundred miles more or less from our proper course and about midway between Bermuda and the Azores, or Western Islands.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
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_Cocktail_ is in longitude 40° 39 'latitude 22° 50', sailing closehauled on the port tack at 8 knots in a 15-knot nor'-nor 'westerly breeze -- how soon before she sights the Azores?
Second Plays
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CNN's Chris Burns will join us from Terceira in the Azores.
CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2003
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Summer weather was once determined by a phenomenon called the anticyclone of the Azores, a high-pressure zone over the Atlantic that brought Italy hot, dry periods relieved by summer storms, and then a definitive break in mid-August when a final storm broke up the anticyclone for good.
Rome: The Marvels and the Menace
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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.
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the Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes
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A thousand miles from anywhere, the Azores are a natural layover for voyaging sailors and adventurous pilgrims.
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This weekend's long run has gone for a burton courtesy of a trip to the Azores tomorrow.
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In the earlier of them the mythical Brazil, a relic perhaps of the lost Atlantis, lay a regularly and mystically blue island off the west coast of Ireland; then the Azores were discovered and the name fastened on to one of the islands of that archipelago.
English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
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To the tars of Victoria's navy, especially those returning from the farthest flung corners of the empire, the Azores were the gateway to home.
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Certain sailors, on a voyage from the Azores to Ireland, had caught glimpses of land on the west, and believed it to be the coast of "Tartary;" etc., etc. See _Vita dell 'Ammiraglio_, cap. ix.
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