about 30 minutes flight
60 miles
1770 kilometers
There are Spanish islands off the east coast of Africa. They are called the Canary Islands. Tenerife, Fuerteventura, and Gran Canaria are the three largest, from large to small. There are more islands in the archipelago.
When all the continents were united as Pangea, the West coast of Africa was attached to the East coast of South America, and they are now far apart. So no, they are getting farther away.
The West Coast of Africa
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Tenerife is a Spanish island that is off the coast of Morocco and Western Sahara, both of which are countries in the northwest of Africa.
Tenerife has been part of Spain since 1496. Tenerife is also a province of Spain and is therefor part of the European Union and belongs therefor to Europe. Tenerife is part of the most southerly islands of Europe very close to the western side of Africa.
Tenerife and the rest of the Canary Islands lie off the west coast of Africa and the nearest country on that continent is Morocco.
Tenerife is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of Africa, which is part of Spanish territory and has received cultural influences from North Africa, Europe and the Americas, having been at the crossroads between all three of these continents since the 16th Century. Hence, geographically Tenerife is in Africa, politically, it's in Europe and culturally, it is a least partly in America. Tenerife is part of the archipelago called Canary Islands, while the Canary Islands belong to Macaronesia. Macaronesia which inludes Tenerife is totally unique and unlike Africa because of its isolated geography, geology and climate.
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The first port at which the First Fleet stopped was Tenerife in the Canary Islands, off the north west coast of Africa.
Northern Ireland is roughly 2000 miles from Tenerife.
In the eastern coast of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands.
1770 kilometers
There are Spanish islands off the east coast of Africa. They are called the Canary Islands. Tenerife, Fuerteventura, and Gran Canaria are the three largest, from large to small. There are more islands in the archipelago.
England is approximately 2,700 miles north of Ivory Coast, Africa.
The distance between Birmingham, England and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (the capital of Tenerife) is approximately 1813 miles (2918 kilometres).