Carthaginian temples found -- Azores

Portuguese American Journal ^ | Saturday, July 9, 2011 | paj.cm

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[SunkenCiv]

http://www.zocotravel.com/images/maps/portugal_azores_madeira.jpg
http://www.taniwani.de/Journe54.jpg
http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~edwinsel/land/maps/eilanden,atlantische_oceaan,map%20(encarta_nl).gif

http://www.colonialvoyage.com/eng/wic/images/wicmap.jpg
http://kesaniemi.kapsi.fi/fs2004/pics/000-route—map.GIF
http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-ocean-map-large.htm

[flowerplough]

“dedicated to the goddess Tanit.”

Dyslexics beware.

[piasa]

Beach goddess?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

She did like a good bar-b-que.

Although with children as the main feature.

[decimon]

The Phoenician colony of Carthage, nearly halfway to America!

It's conceivable that there have been other islands either east or west of the Azores. Or anywhere, for that matter.

[Fred Nerks]

Timelines: A Phoenician Fable

The island of Corvo in the Azores is one of the most remote places on earth. To reach it, one flies first to Santa Maria or Terceira, and then, on a very small plane, to Flores to wait for the weekly mail run by a 20-foot motor launch that is the island’s link to the world. Corvo is the tip of a volcano in the mid-Atlantic ridge and, except for a small area at the south end where a village and port are located, it rises up in sheer cliffs from the sea. Yet this ten-square-mile speck of land is the focus of a most remarkable story of ancient seafaring, a tale involving a statue and a hoard of Carthaginian coins. If true, the discovery of Corvo by Carthaginians would surely change our thinking about ancient navigation, for the easiest way to reach Corvo is to sail first to America on the Canary and North Equatorial Currents and then ride the Gulf Stream back to the Azores...

http://nautarch.tamu.edu/shiplab/acores-geral01-fenicios.htm

[higgmeister]

Ilha da Terceira Bump!

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Oooh, thanks FN!

[higgmeister]

Simply ecstatic Raymond Burr bump!

[blam]

Very interesting, thanks.

[Fred Nerks]

And then there's that aqueduct on Sao Miguel Island, I have been unable to find anything on when and by whom it was erected:

image source

[higgmeister]

I lived in Praia da Vitória for two years!

I am not surprised that the Carthaginians were there. If the Ancient Phoenicians could sail the 2,300 miles across The Mediterranean Sea, then its colony of Carthage could certainly sail the 900 miles off the coast of Portugal to reach the Azores.

It is very beautiful there but it only has two seasons, Sunny and Deluge.

[higgmeister]

Oh I forgot to say, my wife and I went into this cave. It is much more vast than the picture indicates.

[higgmeister]

EXPLORING TERCEIRA (Map) .pdf

[Fred Nerks]

Levadas

The island of Madeira is wet in the northwest but dry in the southeast. In the 16th century the Portuguese started building levadas or aqueducts to carry water to the agricultural regions on the south. The most recent were built in the 1940s. Madeira is very mountainous, and building the levadas was difficult and often sentenced criminals or slaves were used. Many are cut into the sides of mountains, and it was also necessary to dig 25 miles (40 km) of tunnels, some of which are still accessible.

Today the levadas not only supply water to the southern parts of the island but provide hydro-electric power. There are over 1,350 miles (2,170 km) of levadas and they provide a remarkable network of walking paths. Some provide easy and relaxing walks through beautiful countryside, but others are narrow, crumbling ledges where a slip could result in serious injury or death.

Two of the most popular levadas to hike are the Levada do Caldeirão Verde and the Levada do Caldeirão do Inferno which should not be attempted by hikers prone to vertigo or without torches and helmets. The Levada do Caniçal is a much easier walk, running 7.1 miles (11.4 km) from Maroços to the Caniçal Tunnel. It is known as the mimosa levada because mimosa trees are found all along the route.

-------But a 'Levada' such as described here, built by the Portugese, is harddly an AQUEDUCT...IS IT?

[higgmeister]

Madeira island is not part of the Azores. The Madeira archipelago is 420 miles from the Azores archipelago, 350 miles from the northwest coast of Africa and 520 miles southwest of Portugal.

The Azores is almost on a straight line between Lisbon,Portugal and New York City. That puts Madeira Island much further to the South.

[blam]

I was looking through binoculars (from a ship deck) at Azores when someone asked me if I had heard the new hit rock group from England, the Beatles? (Of course, I hadn't)

LOL, I went by there a long time ago.