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Portugal: Gorringe Bank
The impressive Gorringe Seamount is located about 250 km southwest of Cape San Vicente. Its summit is located about 30 meters from the surface and its base is over 5,000 meters deep, so you can find a variety of species living in areas near the sea illuminated surface to those living in dark depths. In … Read more
Portugal: Natura 2000 Network
Like any other EU country, Portugal has to comply with European regulations. The Habitats Directive requires all Member States to establish Marine Protected Areas (MPA) to form part of the EU’s Natura 2000 by the year 2012, thus creating an ecologically coherent set of areas of whose conservation is of critical community importance. The expansion … Read more
Portugal: Overview
If any European country has the most ties to the ocean, it is undoubtedly Portugal. Yet, despite having the largest marine area in the EU, and the largest number of seamounts in the Northeast Atlantic, currently only three seamounts in this country’s waters (Banco D. João de Castro, Menez Gwen and Lucky Strike ), all … Read more
Atlantic
The Atlantic Ocean separates the Americas from western Europe and Africa and extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Antarctic in the south, forming the second largest ocean in the world after the Pacific. The Atlantic has an average depth of 3,900 m due to a giant plateau about 3,000 m deep … Read more
