Bugio Island ( pt, Ilha do Bugio) — is one of the three islands of the Portuguese
Desertas Islands
The Desertas Islands ( pt, Ilhas Desertas, , "Deserted Islands") are a small archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the larger Portuguese Madeira Archipelago.
The archipelago is located off the coast of Morocco. Deserta Grande Island is loc ...
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.
Examples of archipelagos include: the Indonesian Archi ...
, a small chain of islands in the
Madeira Islands Archipelago
of
Macaronesia
Macaronesia (Portuguese: ''Macaronésia,'' Spanish: ''Macaronesia'') is a collection of four volcanic archipelagos in the North Atlantic, off the coasts of Africa and Europe. Each archipelago is made up of a number of List of islands in the At ...
.
It is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the western coast of
North Africa
North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...
, and to the southeast of
Madeira Island
Madeira is a Portuguese island, and is the largest and most populous of the Madeira Archipelago. It has an area of , including Ilhéu de Agostinho, Ilhéu de São Lourenço, Ilhéu Mole (northwest). As of 2011, Madeira had a total population of ...
.
;Nature reserve
The island is part of the Desertas Islands
nature reserve
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, with no approach to the island closer than 100 m without a permit.
The island has breeding
Desertas petrel
The Desertas petrel (''Pterodroma deserta'') is a small seabird in the gadfly petrel genus which breeds on Bugio Island in the Desertas off Madeira. The gadfly petrels in the genus ''Pterodroma'' are seabirds of temperate and tropical oceans. M ...
s.
See also
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Deserta Grande Island
The Deserta Grande Island is the main island of the Desertas Islands archipelago, a small chain of three islands in the Portuguese Madeira Islands Archipelago of Macaronesia.
It is located southeast of Madeira Island, off the western coast of ...
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Ilhéu Chão
The Ilhéu Chão is a small islet within the Desertas Islands, a small chain of islands which are in turn within the Madeira archipelago
An archipelago ( ), sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collect ...
— ''Chão islet''.
External links
Madeirabirds.com: Desertas Islands boat tripsMadeiraarchipelago.com: photos of the Desertas Islands—''Ilhas Desertas''
Islands of the Autonomous Region of Madeira
Uninhabited islands of Portugal
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