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• a variation of Gran Canaria.

Grand Canary

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1. Spanish name: Gran Canaria.  an island in the Atlantic, in the Canary Islands: part of the Spanish province of Las Palmas. Capital: Las Palmas. Pop: 771 333 (2002 est). Area: 1533 sq km (592 sq miles)

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They were happily escaping rain, strong winds and some snow for individual vacations at resorts of their choice on Grand Canary Island, about 40 miles southeast of Tenerife.

From Time Magazine Archive

A fair example of the microbe movie, Grand Canary, adapted from A. J. Cronin's best seller, is small, erratic, commonplace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Las Palmas, his birthplace, capital of the Grand Canary, is a well-built little town of about eighteen thousand people, and the island is the most fertile of the group.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

After much bloodshed, and with reinforcements from the mother country, the Spaniards, under Pedro de Vera, became masters of Grand Canary in 1483.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various

Varnhagen makes this 0¼ S. O. A course W.S.W. for 1,000 leagues would have taken him to the Gulf of Paria, which is a little over 900 leagues W.S.W. from Grand Canary.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Casas, Bartolom? de las