{"id":27387,"date":"2024-10-20T12:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-20T07:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27387"},"modified":"2025-04-08T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T03:47:46","slug":"azores-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/azores-islands\/","title":{"rendered":"Azores Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Azores Islands:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> The Azores Archipelago is a group of nine islands in the <strong>North Atlantic region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin:<\/strong> The islands and islets are of <strong>volcanic origin<\/strong>, some of which have been inactive since they were formed. The archipelago is part of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These are volcanic islands that originated <strong>from the Azores Plateau.<\/strong> The island group lies above the <strong>Azores Triple Junction,<\/strong> a junction where three of the world\u2019s main tectonic plates (Eurasian, North American, and African) meet.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Mid-Atlantic Ridge<\/strong> is the main structure between the African-Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate <strong>crossing the Azores Plateau.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The islands lie in a <strong>northwest-southeast direction<\/strong>, and are divided into three groups: northwest, central and eastern.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mountain: Mount Pico<\/strong>, located on Pico Island, is the <strong>highest point<\/strong> on the archipelago,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Climate: <\/strong>Oceanic subtropical climate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> The islands&#8217; Laurel forests are home to numerous species, including endemic plants and animals.<\/li>\n<li>At least two endemic bird species still survive on the archipelago, including the <strong>Azores bullfinch<\/strong> restricted to laurel forests, and the <strong>Monteiro\u2019s storm petrel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an archipelago?<\/h3>\n<p>An archipelago is an area that contains a chain or group of islands scattered in lakes, rivers, or the ocean.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/environment\/azores-create-largest-marine-protected-area-in-north-atlantic\/2318511\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Azores create largest marine protected area in North Atlantic<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azores Islands is a group of nine islands in the North Atlantic region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}