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Selvagem Pequena Island () is an island in the southeast group of the Lighthouse Depot - Selvagem Pequena Light
Savage Islands
The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands ( pt, Ilhas Selvagens ; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Madeira, and north of the Canary Islands.30,000), white-faced storm- ...
, Madeira
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, Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of th ...
. It is the southernmost major island of Portugal (excluding islets). Its fauna and flora are well-preserved due to lack of human interference.
In the 1890 book ''The Cruise of the Alerte
In 1889, Edward Frederick Knight sailed to Trindade in a 64-foot yawl named the ''Alerte''. He wrote the book ''The Cruise of the Alerte'' about his journey with detailed descriptions of Trindade.
Arthur Ransome used the descriptions from Kn ...
'', the island was called the 'Great Piton'.
It has an active lighthouse.
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