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Azores Express - Connects the Azores and New England with year-round flights from Boston, with connecting flights to Lisbon, Porto, and Madeira. Azores guide, fares and flight times.
Azores - The official Azores tourism site offers maps, history, geography and information on climate, travel, sporting holidays, museums and culture. Photographs and descriptions of each island.
Beautiful Azores - Jørn Rosenkilde gives many pictures and some information on each island, accessed via clickable map.
The Azores - Juergen Keil describes his trip to Faial, Flores, Pico, São Jorge, São Miguel and Terceira in 1999. 32 photographs. Some travel advice is included.
Map of the Azores - Shaded Relief, 1975. (146K)
Azores Villa - Offers family villa vacation rental on a hill overlooking the ocean in the town of Ginetes. Photographs, testimonials and information on the Azores.
Archipelago Azores - UK tour operator specialising in arranging holidays in the Azores. Europe's best kept secret is the Azores Archipelago as a holiday destination.
Azores Holiday - Diary of a three-week holiday in the Azores. Includes a packlist, useful guide books and nature photographs.
de Sousa Lima, Pierre - An economist in the Azores gives an autobiography, family photographs and information on the Azores and motorbikes.
Map of the Island of St Michael - 1845 Historical Map. (233K)

Azores dogfish - The Azores dogfish, Scymnodalatias garricki, is a very rare sleeper shark of the family Dalatiidae, known only from the holotype taken at a depth of 300 m from one of the seamounts of the North Atlantic Ridge located north of the Azores. The Azores dogfish is ovoviviparous.
History of Azores - The Azores were known in the fourteenth century and can be seen incompletely, for example, in the Atlas Catalan. In 1427, one of the captains sailing for Henry the Navigator rediscovered the Azores, possibly GonÃ§alo Velho, but this is not certain.
Flag of the Azores - The flag of the Azores is similar to the flag of Portugal used from 1830-1910, except that the Portuguese coat of arms has been removed and been replaced by the Goshawk (in Portuguese: AÃ§or), the symbol of the Azores.
Azores Bullfinch - The Azores Bullfinch (Pyrrhula murina) is a critically endangered passerine from SÃ£o Miguel Island, Azores.
Azores High - The Azores High, also known as the Bermuda High in the United States, is a large subtropical semi-permanent centre of high atmospheric pressure found near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Horse latitudes. It forms one pole of the North Atlantic oscillation, the other being the Icelandic Low.