Terceira
Terceira is a volcanic island in the Azores archipelago, about a third of the way across the North Atlantic Ocean at a similar latitude to Portugal's capital Lisbon, and the island group is owned by Portugal.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
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Angra do Heroísmo
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Angra do Heroísmo, or simply Angra, is a city and municipality on Terceira Island in Portugal's Azores archipelago.
Praia da Vitória
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Praia da Vitória is a municipality in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
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Algar do Carvão
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The Algar do Carvão is an ancient lava tube or volcanic vent located in the central part of the island of Terceira in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Gruta do Natal
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Gruta do Natal, also known as Galeria Negra or Gruta do Cavalo, is a cave system in municipality of Praia da Vitória, on the island of Terceira in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.
Terceira
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Azores archipelago
- Category: landform
- Location: Posto Santo, Angra do Heroísmo, Terceira, Azores, Portugal, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.7281° or 38° 43' 41" northLongitude
-27.2185° or 27° 13' 7" westPopulation
56,400Elevation
614 metres (2,014 feet)IATA airport code
TERUnited Nations Location Code
PT TERGeoNames ID
3372530Wikidata ID
Q215074Terceira Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Basque: Terceira
- Basque: Terceira uhartea
- Belarusian: Востраў Тэрсейра
- Belarusian: Тэрсейра
- Breton: Enez Terceira
- Catalan: Illa Terceira
- Catalan: Illa de Terceira
- Catalan: Terceira
- Cebuano: Terceira Island
- Chinese: 特塞拉岛
- Chinese: 特塞拉島
- Croatian: Terceira
- Czech: Terceira
- Danish: Terceira
- Dutch: Terceira
- English: Terceira Island
- Esperanto: Triainsulo
- Estonian: Terceira
- Finnish: Terceira
- French: Terceira
- French: Terceire
- French: Île de Terceira
- Galician: Illa Terceira
- Galician: Terceira
- German: Ilha Terceira
- German: Terceira
- Greek: Τερσέιρα
- Hebrew: טרסיירה
- Hindi: ट्रेसिरा द्वीप
- Hungarian: Terceira
- Indonesian: Terceira
- Italian: Isola Terceira
- Italian: Terceira
- Japanese: テルセイラ島
- Korean: 테르세이라
- Korean: 테르세이라섬
- Latvian: Terseira
- Lithuanian: Terseira
- Luxembourgish: Terceira
- Macedonian: Терсеира
- Malay: Terceira
- Malayalam: ടെർസീറ
- Malayalam: ടെർസീറ ദ്വീപ്
- Norwegian: Terceira
- Norwegian Bokmål: Terceira
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Terceira
- Persian: جزیره ترسیرا
- Polish: Terceira
- Portuguese: Ilha Terceira
- Portuguese: Terceira
- Portuguese: Terceirense
- Romanian: Insula Terceira
- Russian: Терсейра
- Serbo-Croatian: Terceira
- Slovenian: Terceira (otok)
- Slovenian: Terceira
- Spanish: Isla Terceira
- Spanish: Isla Tercera
- Spanish: Isla de Terceira
- Spanish: Terceira
- Spanish: Tercera
- Swahili: Terceira
- Swedish: Terceira
- Thai: เกาะตือร์ไซรา
- Turkish: Terceira
- Turkish: Terceira Adası
- Ukrainian: Терсейра
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Terceira. Photo: Eschock, CC BY-SA 2.5.