AREA: 5130 SQ. km,.
Population: 1.3 million
· Capital: post of Spain
· Trinidad lies 11 km off Venezuela and Tobago is situated 32kmnorth east of Trinidad.
· They are southern most islands of the Caribbean archipelago and geologically an extension
of South American continent.
· Has one of the strongest economies in the Caribbean area which is supported by offshore oil and oil refineries.
ATLANTIC OCEAN ISLANDS
AZORES (Portugal)
· The archipelago lies 1,300km west of Portugal.
Area: 2248 sq. km.
It is volcanic in origin.
POPULATION: 2,38,000
· It consists on nine main islands in three widely separated groups.
MADERIA (Portugal)
· The volcanic archipelago is situated 700 km south –east of the Azores.
AREA: 795 sq. km.
Population: 4,37,312
It consists of two ink habited islands, Madeira and Porto Santo.
CANARY ISLANDS.
· The canary island is a part of Spain, situated to the west of africancoast.
· An important ‘port of call’ in the Atlantic Ocean.
CAPE VERDE
· The republic of the cape Verde is an archipelago of 15 islands, lying to the west of Africa in the central atlantics.
AREA: 4033 sq.km.
CAPITAL> PRAIA
· Of volcanic origin, the islands are divided into two groups: barlavento (windward) and sotavento (leeward).
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPLE
