Atlantis Online
April 19, 2024, 01:35:44 pm
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Hunt for Lost City of Atlantis
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3227295.stm
 
  Home Help Arcade Gallery Links Staff List Calendar Login Register  

Pico Island

Pages: [1] 2   Go Down
  Print  
Author Topic: Pico Island  (Read 1611 times)
0 Members and 79 Guests are viewing this topic.
dhill757
Administrator
Superhero Member
*****
Posts: 3896



« on: December 20, 2012, 01:41:52 am »

The main settlements are the capital Madalena, São Roque do Pico and Lajes do Pico, the total population is 15,761 inhabitants (as of 2007).
Economy

The island supported a substantial whaling industry until 1980. The position of the island on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge means that deep water is very close. Active industries include tourism, shipbuilding and wine production. Landscape of the Pico Island Vineyard Culture has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2004. It has several notable wines, that are commercialized in Portugal and exported abroad.
See also

    List of volcanoes in Azores
    Pico IPR
    Queijo do Pico

References

    Scarth, Alwyn; Tanguy, Jean-Claude (2001). Volcanoes of Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 243. ISBN 0-19-521754-3.
    Nunes, J.C. (1999). A actividade vulcânica na ilha do Pico do Plistocénio Superior ao Holocénio: Mecanismo eruptivo e hazard vulcânico. Tese de doutoramento no ramo de Geologia, especialidade de Vulcanologia. Ponta Delgada: University of the Azores. p. 357.
    Madeira, José Eduardo de Oliveira (1998). Estudos de neotectónica nas ilhas do Faial, Pico e S. Jorge: uma contribuição para o conhecimento geodinâmico da junção tripla dos Açores. Tese de Doutoramento no ramo de Geologia, especialidade em Geodinâmica Interna. Lisbon: Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. p. 428.
    Madeira, José Eduardo de Oliveira; António Brum da Silveira (October 2003). Active tectonics and first paleoseismological results in Faial, Pico and S. Jorge islands (Azores, Portugal). 5. 46. Lisbon: Annals of Geophysics. pp. 733–761.
    Senos, M.L.; João Luís Gaspar, Teresa Ferreira, L. Cruz, J.C. Nunes, J. Pacheco, et. al. (1998). O terramoto do Faial de 9 de Julho de 1998. Proceedings do 1º Simpósio de Meterologia e Geofísica da AMPG. pp. 61–68.
Report Spam   Logged


Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
  Print  
 
Jump to:  

Powered by EzPortal
Bookmark this site! | Upgrade This Forum
SMF For Free - Create your own Forum
Powered by SMF | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines
Privacy Policy