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Berlengas, the Glossary

The Berlengas are a Portuguese archipelago consisting of small Atlantic islands off the coast of Peniche, Portugal, in the Oeste region.^[1]

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Archipelago

An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.

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Armeria berlengensis

Armeria berlengensis is a flowering plant, a member of a mostly Mediterranean group including the thrifts and sea pinks.

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The Azores High also known as North Atlantic (Subtropical) High/Anticyclone or the Bermuda-Azores High, is a large subtropical semi-permanent centre of high atmospheric pressure typically found south of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean, at the Horse latitudes.

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Baal

Baal, or Baʻal (baʿal), was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity.

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Ballan wrasse

The ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) is a species of marine ray finned fish from the family Labridae, the wrasses.

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Band-rumped storm petrel

The band-rumped storm petrel, Madeiran storm petrel, or Harcourt's storm petrel (Hydrobates castro) is of the storm petrel family Hydrobatidae.

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Barbary Coast

The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries.

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Berlengas Natural Reserve

Berlengas Natural Reserve is a Portuguese natural reserve in the Berlengas, a small archipelago off the coast of Peniche, Portugal.

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Black rat

The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus, in the subfamily Murinae.

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Black redstart

The black redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) is a small passerine bird in the genus Phoenicurus.

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Breccia

Breccia is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or rocks cemented together by a fine-grained matrix.

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Cabo Carvoeiro

Cabo Carvoeiro (Cape Carvoeiro) is cape which lies on the Atlantic coast, along the westernmost point of the Peniche Peninsula, in the civil parish of Peniche and the Oeste region.

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Carpobrotus edulis

Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa.

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Central Region, Portugal

The Central Region (Região do Centro) or Central Portugal is one of the statistical regions of Portugal.

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Cetacea

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.

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Coastal fish

Coastal fish, also called inshore fish or neritic fish, inhabit the sea between the shoreline and the edge of the continental shelf.

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Common bottlenose dolphin

The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops.

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Common dolphin

The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with a global population of about six million.

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Common minke whale

The common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.

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Common murre

The common murre, also called the common guillemot or foolish guillemot, (Uria aalge) is a large auk.

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Continental Portugal

Continental Portugal (Portugal continental) or mainland Portugal comprises the bulk of the Portuguese Republic, namely that part on the Iberian Peninsula and so in Continental Europe, having approximately 95% of the total population and 96.6% of the country's land.

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Continental shelf

A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Council of war

A council of war is a term in military science that describes a meeting held to decide on a course of action, usually in the midst of a battle.

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Cuvier's beaked whale

Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae.

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Diplodus vulgaris

Diplodus vulgaris, the common two-banded sea bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, which includes the seabreams and porgies.

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Diurnal air temperature variation

In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day.

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Do not feed the animals

Feral pigeons being fed in a public space Where zoos permit visitors to feed animals, it is usually domestic animals such as sheep and goats, as in this French zoo archive-date.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper Saxon: Dräsdn; Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and it is the second most populous city after Leipzig.

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Echium

Echium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that contains about 70 species and several subspecies.

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Eleanor of Viseu

Eleanor of Viseu (2 May 1458 – 17 November 1525; Leonor de Viseu) was a Portuguese infanta (princess) and later queen consort of Portugal.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Epinephelus marginatus

Epinephelus marginatus, the dusky grouper, yellowbelly rock cod or yellowbelly grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.

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European rabbit

The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) or coney is a species of rabbit native to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal and Andorra), western France, and the northern Atlas Mountains in northwest Africa.

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European seabass

The European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax), also known as the branzino, European bass, sea bass, common bass, white bass, capemouth, white salmon, sea perch, white mullet, sea dace or loup de mer, is a primarily ocean-going fish native to the waters off Europe's western and southern and Africa's northern coasts, though it can also be found in shallow coastal waters and river mouths during the summer months and late autumn.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Feldspar

Feldspar (sometimes spelled felspar) is a group of rock-forming aluminium tectosilicate minerals, also containing other cations such as sodium, calcium, potassium, or barium.

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Fish

A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.

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Fort of São João Baptista (Berlengas)

The Fort of São João Baptista das Berlengas, or simply known as the Fort of the Berlengas, is located off western coast of Portugal, on the largest island of the archipelago of the Berlengas, in the municipality of Peniche in Oeste region.

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Geography (Ptolemy)

The Geography (Γεωγραφικὴ Ὑφήγησις,, "Geographical Guidance"), also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling the geographical knowledge of the 2nd-century Roman Empire.

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Gilt-head bream

The gilt-head bream (Sparus aurata), also known as the gilthead, gilt-head seabream or silver seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams or porgies.

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Granite

Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.

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Harbour porpoise

The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is one of eight extant species of porpoise.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Herniaria lusitanica subsp. berlengiana

Herniaria lusitanica subsp.

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Horst (geology)

In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.

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Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera

The Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (abbreviated as IPMA) is the national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organization of Portugal.

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John IV of Portugal

Dom John IV (João,; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), nicknamed John the Restorer (João, o Restaurador), was the King of Portugal whose reign, lasting from 1640 until his death, began the Portuguese restoration of independence from Habsburg Spanish rule.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lesser black-backed gull

The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe.

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List of islands of Portugal

This is a list of islands of Portugal, including islets (Portuguese: ilhéu or ilhote).

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Mackerel

Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish, mostly from the family Scombridae.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.

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Mediterranean climate

A Mediterranean climate, also called a dry summer climate, described by Köppen as Cs, is a temperate climate type that occurs in the lower mid-latitudes (normally 30 to 44 north and south latitude).

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Melqart

Melqart was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city-state of Tyre and a major deity in the Phoenician and Punic pantheons.

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Mesozoic

The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.

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Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism.

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Mullet (fish)

The mullets or grey mullets are a family (Mugilidae) of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and some species in fresh water.

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Nazaré Canyon

The Nazaré Canyon is a submarine canyon just off the coast of Nazaré, portuguese Oeste region, in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean.

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Nortada

The Nortada ("north wind") is a summer wind along the west coast of the Iberian Peninsula from northerly directions, which occurs mainly between June and September.

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NOVA University Lisbon

NOVA University Lisbon (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), or just NOVA, is a Portuguese public university whose rectorate is located in Campolide, Lisbon.

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Ocellated lizard

The ocellated lizard or jewelled lizard (Timon lepidus) is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae (wall lizards).

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Comunidade Intermunicipal do Oeste (or; in English: Intermunicipal Community of the West) is an administrative division of Portugal, located on the country's western central coast.

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Oestophora

Oestophora is a genus of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Trissexodontidae.

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Pelagic fish

Pelagic fish live in the pelagic zone of ocean or lake waters—being neither close to the bottom nor near the shore—in contrast with demersal fish that live on or near the bottom, and reef fish that are associated with coral reefs.

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Peniche, Portugal

Peniche is a seaside municipality and a city in the Oeste region, in the historical province of Estremadura, and in the Leiria District.

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Peregrine falcon

The peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), also known simply as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a cosmopolitan bird of prey (raptor) in the family Falconidae.

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Phoenicia

Phoenicia, or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon.

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Podarcis carbonelli

Podarcis carbonelli, commonly known as Carbonell's wall lizard, is a species of lizard in the family Lacertidae.

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Portuguese Restoration War

The Restoration War (Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação), was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union.

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Pothole (landform)

In Earth science, a pothole is a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow, generally deeper than wide, found carved into the rocky bed of a watercourse.

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Privateer

A privateer is a private person or vessel which engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.

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Productivity (ecology)

In ecology, the term productivity refers to the rate of generation of biomass in an ecosystem, usually expressed in units of mass per volume (unit surface) per unit of time, such as grams per square metre per day (g m−2 d−1).

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Pulicaria microcephala

Pulicaria microcephala is a species of flowering plant of the family Asteraceae endemic to the Berlengas archipelago in Portugal.

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Quaternary glaciation

The Quaternary glaciation, also known as the Pleistocene glaciation, is an alternating series of glacial and interglacial periods during the Quaternary period that began 2.58 Ma (million years ago) and is ongoing.

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Rashidun Caliphate

The Rashidun Caliphate (al-Khilāfah ar-Rāšidah) was the first caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Red porgy

The red porgy (Pagrus pagrus), also known as the common seabream or Couch's bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Sparidae.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.

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Sardine

Sardine and pilchard are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring family Clupeidae.

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School shark

The school shark (Galeorhinus galeus) is a houndshark of the family Triakidae, and the only member of the genus Galeorhinus.

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Sea breeze

A sea breeze or onshore breeze is any wind that blows from a large body of water toward or onto a landmass.

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Social behavior is behavior among two or more organisms within the same species, and encompasses any behavior in which one member affects the other.

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Species nova

In biological taxonomy, a species nova (plural: species novae; abbreviation: sp. plural abbreviation: spp.) is a new species.

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Striped dolphin

The striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is a dolphin found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans.

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Swordfish

The swordfish (Xiphias gladius), also known as the broadbill in some countries, are large, highly migratory predatory fish characterized by a long, flat, pointed bill.

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Tuff

Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Upwelling

Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water from deep water towards the ocean surface.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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World Network of Biosphere Reserves

The UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) covers internationally designated protected areas, known as biosphere or nature reserves, which are meant to demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature (e.g. encourage sustainable development).

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Yellow-legged gull

The yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) is a large gull found in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, which has only recently achieved wide recognition as a distinct species.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlengas

Also known as Berlenga, Berlenga Grande, Berlenga Grande Island, Berlenga Island, Berlings, Farilhões, Reserva Natural das Berlengas, The Burlings.

, List of islands of Portugal, Mackerel, Man and the Biosphere Programme, Mediterranean climate, Melqart, Mesozoic, Metamorphic rock, Mullet (fish), Nazaré Canyon, Nortada, NOVA University Lisbon, Ocellated lizard, Oeste (intermunicipal community), Oestophora, Pelagic fish, Peniche, Portugal, Peregrine falcon, Phoenicia, Podarcis carbonelli, Portuguese Restoration War, Pothole (landform), Privateer, Productivity (ecology), Pulicaria microcephala, Quaternary glaciation, Rashidun Caliphate, Red porgy, Roman Empire, Sardine, School shark, Sea breeze, Social behavior, Species nova, Striped dolphin, Swordfish, Tuff, UNESCO, Upwelling, Vikings, World Network of Biosphere Reserves, Yellow-legged gull.

Berlengas, the Glossary

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See also

Biosphere reserves of Portugal

Natura 2000 in Portugal

Uninhabited islands of Portugal

References