Fuerteventura

[ fwer-tee-ven-toor-uh, foo-er-; Spanish fwer-te-ven-toorah ]

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noun

a Spanish island off the NW coast of Africa, one of the Canary Islands. 641 sq. mi. (1,660 sq. km).

The highest peak reaches 2500 ft. In external appearance, climate and productions, Fuerteventura greatly resembles Lanzarote.

Fuerteventura is twenty-seven hundred feet high, and in fine weather is visible many leagues away.

In Fuerteventura the inhabitants are sometimes obliged to flee to other islands to avoid perishing from thirst.

Going on to Fuerteventura, he was hampered by a mutiny among his men, and by lack of supplies.

The 26th we saw land, supposed to be the western part of Fuerteventura, but it proved to be part of Barbary.

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