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	Azores - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The mountain of Pico on Pico Island at 2,351 m in altitude, is the highest in all of Portugal.
		The islands are an autonomous region of Portugal.
		Pico, a volcano that stands 2,351 metres high on the island of the same name, has the highest altitude in the Azores.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Azores (1051 words)

	Azores Island of Pico information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pico mountain, the lava beds of the mistérios and the caverns and grottoes that pierce the solidified magma are not the only visible results of volcanic activity in the island.
		But it is the simple charms of the island of Pico, made up of green pastures, maize fields, sweet-smelling orchards and dark mistérios, that excite those who seek to discover, by walking, all the attractions of this island born of fire.
		The vineyards, which mark the landscape of the island, also produce a dry, fresh, light and fruity wine that is the ideal companion of a dish of shell-fish or fish, and also the red vinho de cheiro whose presence is compulsory on tables on feast days.
	www.azores.com /azores/pico.asp (3648 words)

	The Azores. Pico Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pico Island, named after its imposing mountain and also known as the grey island due to the mountain, is often referred as the “Ilha Montanha” (Mountain Island) and belongs to the central group of islands.
		Pico island is, the after S. Miguel, the second largest island in the Azores and it is 4,5 miles from Faial and 11 miles from S. Jorge.
		Climbing Pico mountain may be a reward for the magnificent views, that the altitude provides, of both Pico island and the other islands of the central group, although it is always advisable to be accompanied by a guide.
	www.holidayinazores.com /ru/htm/eng/pico.htm (409 words)

	Pico Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		IPA /'i.ʎɐ du 'pi.ku/) is an island of the Azores noted for its eponymous volcano, Ponta de Pico (Pico Alto), which is the highest mountain of Portugal and also the highest elevation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
		The volcano is in the south-west of the island, at 38.47 N, 28.40 W. It is a basaltic stratocone 2,350 m high with steep sides.
		The position of the island on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge means that deep water is very close.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pico_Island (274 words)

	AzoresRural.com - Rural Tourism In The Azores (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Pico island is the second largest island in the Archipelago of the Azores, it is situated west of mainland Portugal, here, you can find the highest point in the Portuguese territory the mountain of Pico with 2351 meters of altitude.
		Pico: with 2351 meters of altitude, is the highest elevation in the Azores and Mainland Portugal.
		Pico is a paradise for all that like nature, of travelling through the marvellous coast and appreciating the green plateau with small lagoons, wineyards, fields of lava and with the enthusiastic experience of mountain climbing to the volcanic cone.
	www.azoresrural.com /english/ilhas/pico.php (1142 words)

	Volcan Pico - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Volcan Pico, volcano on the island of Pico, in the Azores, at 2,351 m (7,711 ft) the highest summit in that island group and in the whole of...
		Pico de Teide, volcano situated on the island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.
		Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni, Conte (1463-1494), Italian humanist philosopher, born near Ferrara, and educated at the University of Bologna....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Volcan_Pico.html (116 words)

	Island Pond - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Island Pond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Island Pond stands on the Pherrins and Clyde rivers, 23 km/14 mi south of the Québec border.
		The village is named after an expanse of water at its southern end, which has a 9-hectare/22-acre island in its centre.
		Island Pond is located in the heart of the Northeast Kingdom, and is home to a divisional headquarters of the Canadian National Railway.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Island+Pond (164 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Shuttle Radar Laboratory acquired a multiparameter synthetic aperture radar image of the PICO stratovolcano, on the island of Pico as part of its SRL-2 mission in October of 1994.
		Pico is a relatively recent volcano, and the largest in the central Atlantic, and as recently as the 18th century flank eruptions of lava flows were observed.
		Pico displays a morphology somewhere between an oceanic island shield and the classic stratovolcanoes of the Pacific Rim region (i.e.
	denali.gsfc.nasa.gov /research/volc2/azores.html (322 words)

	Portugal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fourteen years later, on a small island known as Arguim off the coast of Mauritania a castle was built, working as a a trading post for commerce with inland Africa.
		The islands of the Azores and Madeira are located in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, some of the islands have had recent volcanic activity.
		Dom João de Castro Bank is a large submarine volcano that lies midway between the islands of Terceira and São Miguel and rises to 14 metres (46 ft) under the sea surface.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Portugal (8655 words)

	Pico - Azores Tourist Guide - Destinazores
		Pico is the second largest island of the Archipelago with a surface area of 448 km2.
		The majestic mountain in Pico, classified in 1972 as Natural Reserve, is a prominent and consistent element in the island’s landscape.
		Pico Pequeno is the volcanic cone which lies at the extremity of the crater.
	www.destinazores.com /pico.php (664 words)

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		The western group (Flores and Corvo islands) is located west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (M.A.R.), while the central (Terceira, Graciosa, São Jorge, Pico and Faial islands) and the eastern groups (São Miguel, Santa Maria islands and Formigas islets) are located on the so-called Azores Microplate, an approximately triangular area with active volcanoes and high seismicity.
		The Azores Microplate is bordered to the west by the M.A.R, to the south by the East Azores Fracture Zone – GLORIA Fault and the Terceira Rift to the north.
		However, Pico island is occasionally hit by stronger earthquakes, with intensity from VI to VII, that have origin in nearby seismic zones such as the 1757 earthquake of San Jorge and the 1926 and 1998 earthquakes of Faial.
	www.uac.pt /~jcnunes/Tese/Abstract.htm (2279 words)

	The Omega Universe presents - Omega's Pico Web Page
		The villages in the south of Pico are the oldest ones.
		Pico is an island that is experiencing economic development, made possible by the building of new ports and the airport, which was recently opened.
		São Mateus is one of the oldest villages on the island.
	www.pathcom.com /~omega/pico.html (5412 words)

	Pico Sport Azores: The Azores
		Pico island is considered one of the most beautiful of the Azorean islands.
		Pico is located right on the edge where the African continental plate drifts away from the American plate and is dominated by an old volcanoe of the same name.
		Pico is a green island with a dazzling variety of colours.
	www.whales-dolphins.net /azores_en/azores.html (276 words)

	Boston Globe Online / Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Since this was a ``family-friendly'' tour, Cohen was accompanied on the July trip to Pico island by her husband, Dr. Richard H. Cohen, who has a medical practice in Hanover, and their two children, Eirann, 6, and Ethan, 4.
		``Pico is amazing, gorgeous, picturesque,'' said Sharon Ing of Huntsville, Ala., who was on the dolphin trip with her husband, Randy; their two children, Austin, 13, and Samantha, 10, and five other members of their extended family.
		Farming was the mainstay of the island until the 18th century, when New England whalers first came to hunt Pico's plentiful sperm whales and recruit harpooners and rowers from among the local population.
	www.boston.com /globe/search/stories/travel/pico_azores.htm (2038 words)

	Pico Hotel Pico Azores Portugal
		Pico Hotel is on an island of attractive scenery and landscapes.
		The island is dominated by its majestic mountain, Pico (peak), which gave the name to the island.
		The island of Pico is the centre for the whale watching boat trips.
	www.direct-hotels-online.com /Portugal/Azores/Pico/Pico_Hotel.html (268 words)

	Pico - Azores Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sao Miguel, known as the green island, is the largest and most populated island of the Azores.
		"Pico da Vara", the highest point on the island, with an altitude of 1105m, is a challenge to a one and a half to two hour walk along a path which offers magnificent scenery of nature in the most primitive form.
		Pico da Vara is considered Natural Reserve, and a previous authorisation by the Regional Forestry Ministry is required).
	www.azores.com /azoresislands/pico.asp (932 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The name Pico means peak from the volcano on the island that stands at 7,714 feet and covers much of the island of Pico.
		Pico is one of the nine islands of the Azores.
		My grandmother recalls only one store in Pico, which was more like a small mart that brought in imports which arrived on boats from “strange lands.” It was a place where people made use of what they had and profited from this, selling whatever they had to the merchants on the boats.
	home.sandiego.edu /~mstanley/page101.html (1283 words)

	Pico Island Marriage Database
		After years of part-time work on this project to extract all the marriages of everyone from the island of Pico since the beginning of the records, I now have 11,000 mariages from all the villages which exist on Pico, covering the years 1593 to 1876.
		While I have ancestors from every village on the island, often they were born in the southern villages in the 16th or 17th century, often before records exist for those villages today.
		So please send me information about your families (only the ones descended from Pico or Terceira islands, and their spouses) and if we are related and you want to know who my living relatives are, I will be happy to send you information about them for your collection.
	www.dholmes.com /pico-casamentos.html (1286 words)

	Picoazores.com - English Version - Pico Island
		Pico Mountain functions as a barometer for itself and the neighbouring islands, forecasting the weather according to the position of the clouds.
		However, the first capitão donatário of Pico Island was Álvaro de Ornelas from Madeira Island, the son of Lopo Esteves de Dornelas and Maria de Ayala e Vasconcelos, relatives of Diogo de Silves, 1st Count of Portalegre.
		Some historians state that the island’s first settlers were the ones who Captain Jos d' Utra, from Faial Island, sent to the island and docked in 21 September 1481.
	www.picoazores.com /english/pico_island/parish/ilha_do_pico.php (1036 words)

	SummitPost - Montanha do Pico -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Pico island is in the central group and the peak is at 2351 meters high and is the highest point of Azores and Portugal!
		In case you arrive to Faial Island (which is the best option to arrive to Pico), you should then take another flight with Sata or the ferry to Pico Island.
		Once you are in the island, in Madalena village and you forget some equipment at home and need to buy some new mountain equipment, you can try the store "Sailing", which is in center off the Madalena village, near the sea.
	www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/152378/montanha-do-pico.html (790 words)

	Pico Sport Azores: Whales and Dolphins of Pico Island
		Pico’s real treasures are found along the coastline which teems with marine life.
		Sperm whales are found predominantly along the south coast of Pico where they dive to a depth of 1600 m to hunt their favourite food, the giant squids.
		Around Pico, those dolphins are very large (around 3 m length) and usually occur in small groups of 10 to 50 animals.
	www.whales-dolphins.net /azores_en/whales_dolphins.html (531 words)

	The Island of Pico, The Azores
		Spread out along the coast, nestled between the green fresco of vegetation and vineyards, the villages of Pico have a distinctive character all of its very own characterised by its houses which are built from blocks of fl lava.
		Until the end of the 19th century, American whalers would come to Pico to catch sperm whales and to recruit harpooners, though it would not be long before the islanders took to whaling themselves using their speedy rowing boats.
		These days Pico is regaining its whaling tradition though in a more peaceful way-in the form of two museums which tell the story of whaling and display the delicate artwork performed by mariners using the teeth and bones of sperm whales.
	www.eurosun.com /pico.htm (549 words)

	Pico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By a quirk of politics rather than geography Pico counts as the highest mountain in Portugal although it lies about a thousand miles away in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
		Seen across the sea from the other Azorean islands it takes on a dreamlike quality and offers an irresistible challenge to the climber, a challenge quite easily answered by the walker accustomed to steep and rough terrain.
		Clouds had gathered around the slopes of the mountain but the island of Faial could be glimpsed through them far below to remind us that we were living now in that dream world on the mountain which we had gazed at across the sea for so long.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/1015/gpc.htm (355 words)

	Ilha Do Pico, Ilha Grande Bay, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ilha do Pico (Peak Island) is not a hotel or an inn, rather, it is a project that was conceived so that guests can leave their worries behind and experience the pleasures of relaxing on their own private island.
		It is common to hear the sound of the herons in their nests, and encounter ties-sangue (a bird of the tanager family) circling the house.
		Electricity: The island is equipped with a solar energy system (12 volts) and offers an enjoyable stay, free of noisy generators.
	www.privateislandsonline.com /picorentorbz.htm (885 words)

	Islands.com \| Azores
		In the 1800s, the island of Pico was a familiar port of call for Nantucket whalers, a remote Atlantic island famed in both America and Europe for its fine verdelho wine, and considered perhaps the loveliest of the Azores.
		And a lovely chain it is, with vast green patchworks of farms and fields (wine growing has made a comeback) lined with hydrangeas and azaleas, sheer sea cliffs, long beaches, small fishing villages, and dramatic volcano mountains as a backdrop.
		Pico, named for its 7,700-foot high volcano (yes, you can climb it with a guide) was first settled in the mid-1400s, but it isn’t totally wrapped up in the past:Active visitors can spend their days diving, hiking, sailing, deep-sea fishing, and whale watching.
	www.islands.com /azores (507 words)

	The Resident \| Algarve Edition
		Named after its imposing mountain and also known as the Grey Island, Pico is often referred to as the Ilha Montanha (Mountain Island) and belongs to the central group of islands.
		The island of Flores is the westernmost point of the archipelago and of Europe.
		Corvo is the smallest island in the Archipelago and is famous for its windmills and handicrafts, particularly traditional wool hats and bonnets.
	portugalresident.com /portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=9100 (866 words)

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