El Hierro, nicknamed Isla del Meridiano (the "Meridian Island"), is a Spanish island. It is the smallest and furthest south and west of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. The name of the island is derived from the Guanch language toponym Hero, which by the process of folk-etymology was transforme...

The semi-desert Island of Fuerteventura lies just less than 100km off the coast of Africa (near the border of Morocco and Western Sahara). Fuerteventura is the longest Island in the archipelago at 98km north to south and the second-largest Canary Island after Tenerife. The unforgiving barren and arid interior of the island sha...

Tenerife is probably one of the last European paradise isles. Located between Gran Canaria and La Gomera about 300 kilometers from the coast of North Africa, Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands. Like the rest of the Canary Islands, it is of volcanic origin. Features of Tenerife North (GCXO) FSX Based on commercially a...