The Azores form an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and consist of in total 9 inhabited islands ...

The Azores are far from everything, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, about 1500 km off the coast of mainland Portugal ...

It is plausible that people settled on the islands at least some 700 years before that, they would have been Vikings probably, but possibly even much earlier.

Geologically, the Azores fit that description quite accurately. At least some of the local folk tales and legends give the history of this Atlantis as an explanation of how the natural features of the landscape were created.

The islands, together with the three other volcanic archipelagos, Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Cape Verde Islands ...

The Azores have an oceanic subtropical climate, climate classification Köppen-Geiger Csa-b to Cfa-b according to location ...