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Desertas

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island group attached to the municipality of Funchal

32°32′46″ N16°31′31″ W Google Maps

An island group near Madeira that was already separated from it at the last eruptions and shares endemic species with it. It was the main orchil-harvesting area, and Wollaston found 89 beetle species there. The islands were investigated by scientific expeditions, including the Endurance scientists in 1914.

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2Chronology

  1. King Duarte granted the archipelago to Prince Henry, requiring the kingdom's coin to circulate, and its spiritual jurisdiction to the Order of Christ.

  2. William Johnston made a geo-hydrographic survey of Madeira, the Desertas and Porto Santo.

  3. A memoir on the geology of Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas was published in Lisbon.

  4. Captain A. T. E. Vidal aboard HMS Styx, with António Pedro de Azevedo, surveyed Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas.

  5. Captain Vidal's charts were published, including a chart of Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas and 'Funchal Bay' with a plan of the city.

  6. António Pedro de Azevedo published geo-hydrographic charts of Porto Santo (1877), Madeira and the Desertas, issued in 1877, 1879 and 1886.

  7. Shackleton's ship Endurance visited Madeira and the Desertas.

  8. The 1914 triangulation was revised and extended to Porto Santo and the Desertas for chorographic and hydrographic surveys.

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