Macaronesia
Macaronesia is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of Atlantic oceanic islands, which were formed by seamounts on the ocean floor whose peaks have risen above the ocean's surface.Photo: davidstanleytravel, CC BY 2.0.
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Macaronesia
- Type: Region
- Description: collection of four archipelagos in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Europe and Africa
- Categories: group, tetrad, and locality
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Latitude
28° northLongitude
-21° or 21° westOpen location code
79WX2222+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 5282284921OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q105472
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Macaronesia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Makaronesië”
- Arabic: “ماكارونيسيا”
- Asturian: “Macaronesia”
- Basque: “Makaronesia”
- Belarusian: “Макаранезія”
- Belarusian: “Макаранэзія”
- Bengali: “মাকারোনেশিয়া”
- Bulgarian: “Макаронезия”
- Catalan: “Illes Macaronèsiques”
- Catalan: “Macaronèsia”
- Catalan: “Macaronèsic”
- Catalan: “Macaronèsica”
- Catalan: “Macaronèsiques”
- Catalan: “Regió de la Macaronèsia”
- Catalan: “Regió Macaronèsia”
- Catalan: “Regió macaronèsica”
- Chinese: “馬卡羅尼西亞”
- Chinese: “马卡罗尼西亚”
- Croatian: “Makaronezija”
- Czech: “Makaronesie”
- Czech: “Makaronésie”
- Czech: “Makaronéské ostrovy”
- Czech: “Makaronezie”
- Czech: “Makaronézie”
- Danish: “Makaronesia”
- Danish: “Makaronesien”
- Dutch: “Macaronesie”
- Dutch: “Macaronesië”
- Esperanto: “Makaronezio”
- Estonian: “Makaroneesia”
- Faroese: “Makaronesia”
- Finnish: “Macaronesia”
- Finnish: “Makaronesia”
- French: “Macaronesie”
- French: “Macaronésie”
- Galician: “Macaronesia”
- German: “Makaronesien”
- German: “Makaronesische Inseln”
- Greek: “Μακαρονησία”
- Hebrew: “מאקרונזיה”
- Hebrew: “מקרונזיה”
- Hungarian: “Makaronézia”
- Inari Sami: “Makaronesia”
- Indonesian: “Macaronesia”
- Indonesian: “Makaronesia”
- Irish: “an Mhacarainéis”
- Italian: “Macaronesia”
- Japanese: “マカロネシア”
- Korean: “마카로네시아”
- Lao: “ມາຄາໂຣເນເຊຍ”
- Latin: “Macaronesia”
- Latvian: “Makaronēzija”
- Lithuanian: “Makaronezija”
- Low German: “Makaronesien”
- Macedonian: “Макаронезија”
- Northern Frisian: “Makaroneesien”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Makaronesia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makaronesia”
- Norwegian: “Makaronesia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Macaronesia”
- Persian: “ماکرونزی”
- Polish: “Makaronezja”
- Portuguese: “Macaronesia”
- Portuguese: “Macaronésia”
- Portuguese: “Macaronésica”
- Portuguese: “Região biogeografica da Macaronésia”
- Portuguese: “Região Biogeográfica da Macaronésia”
- Romanian: “Macaronezia”
- Russian: “Макаронезия”
- Russian: “Макронезия”
- Serbian: “Makaronezija”
- Serbian: “Макаронезија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Makaronezija”
- Sinhala: “මැකරෝනීසියාව”
- Skolt Sami: “Makaronesia”
- Slovenian: “Makaronezija”
- Spanish: “Macaronesia”
- Spanish: “Macaronesica”
- Spanish: “Macaronésica”
- Spanish: “Macaronesico”
- Spanish: “Macaronésico”
- Spanish: “Macronesia”
- Swedish: “Macaronesia”
- Swedish: “Macaronesien”
- Swedish: “Makaronesien”
- Tagalog: “Macaronesia”
- Tamil: “மகரோனிசியா”
- Thai: “มาคาโรนีเซีย”
- Turkish: “Makaronezya”
- Ukrainian: “Макаронезія”
- Venetian: “Macaronèzia”
- Vietnamese: “Macaronesia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Macaronesia”
- Western Frisian: “Makaroneezje”
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