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"About 2 Months Later, January 1511”
- Canary Islands, (West of Africa, Atlantic Ocean) -
After Santa Maria left the Azores on 12 November 1510, it continued on its way south across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping for 2 months. It was the last piece of land close to the mainland before it opened to the west into the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean, about 50 km off the coast of Africa. Just like the Azores, Santa Maria, which circulated from the south of this island group consisting of about 10 small islands, large and small, laid anchor off the small island of El Hierro (‘Hierro’ means ‘Iron’ in Spanish), the most southwestern of The Canary Islands.
Santa Maria reached El Hierro, Canary Islands, 2 months after leaving the Azores.
This island, as its name suggests, was in fact
