Desertas Islands
The Desertas Islands are a small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the larger Portuguese Madeira Archipelago. The archipelago is located off the coast of Morocco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: small Portuguese archipelago, part of Madeira archipelago
- Also known as: “Desertes” and “Dezertas”
Desertas Islands
- Categories: island group and landform
- Location: Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Municipality, Madeira, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Ukrainian—“Desertas Islands” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Islas Desertas”
- Basque: “Desertas uharteak”
- Basque: “Desertas”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Дэзерташ”
- Belarusian: “Дэзерташ”
- Catalan: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Catalan: “Illes Desertes”
- Cebuano: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Chinese: “德塞塔群岛”
- Czech: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Czech: “Ostrovy Desertas”
- Dutch: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Esperanto: “Desertas-insuloj”
- Finnish: “Desertassaaret”
- French: “Archipel des Désertes”
- French: “Desertas”
- French: “îles Desertas”
- French: “Îles Desertas”
- French: “Îles Désertes”
- French: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Galician: “Illas Desertas”
- German: “Bugio”
- German: “Deserta Grande”
- German: “Deserta”
- German: “Desertas”
- German: “Ilhas Desertas”
- German: “Ilheu Chao”
- German: “Ilheu Chão”
- German: “Ilhéu Chao”
- German: “Ilhéu Chão”
- German: “Wüsteninseln”
- Hebrew: “איי דזרטש”
- Hungarian: “Kopár-szigetek”
- Icelandic: “As Desertas”
- Icelandic: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Italian: “Desertas”
- Italian: “Isole Desertas”
- Japanese: “デザルタス諸島”
- Japanese: “デゼルタス島”
- Japanese: “デゼルタス諸島”
- Korean: “데제르타스 제도”
- Latvian: “Desertaša”
- Latvian: “Dezērtaša”
- Lithuanian: “Dezertašo salos”
- Luxembourgish: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Northern Frisian: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Desertasøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desertasøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Norwegian: “Desertasøyene”
- Polish: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Polish: “Wyspy Pustynne”
- Portuguese: “Desertas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Russian: “Дезерташ”
- Russian: “Ильяш-Дезерташ”
- Russian: “Острова Дезерташ”
- Russian: “Острова Десерташ”
- Spanish: “Ilhas Desertas”
- Spanish: “Islas Desertas”
- Spanish: “Islas desiertas”
- Spanish: “Islas Desiertas”
- Swedish: “Desertasöarna”
- Turkish: “Desertas Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Дезерташ”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Дезерташ”
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