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Fuerteventura Island

island, Canary Islands, Spain
Also known as: Isla de Fuerteventura
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Vicente Rodriguez
Research Scientist, Instituto de Economía y Geografía, Madrid, Spain. Co-author of Northern Europeans and the Mediterranean: A New California or a New Florida?; Southern Europe and the New Migrations...
Vicente Rodriguez
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Fuerteventura Island, island, one of the eastern Canary Islands, Las Palmas provincia (province), in the Canary Islands comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain. It lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, 65 miles (105 km) west of Cape Juby, Morocco. This volcanic island, the second largest of the Canaries, measures 60 miles (100 km) in length. It lies southwest of Lanzarote island, across Bocaina Strait. The island, rising to 2,648 feet (807 metres) at Jandía Peninsula to...

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