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GOMERA

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 229 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOMERA  , an

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island in the
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Atlantic Ocean, forming
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part of the
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Spanish
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archipelago of the
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Canary Islands (q.v.) . Pop . (rgoo) 15,358;
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area 144 sq. m . Gomera lies 20 M . W.S.W. of
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Teneriffe . Its greatest length is about 23 M . The
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coast is precipitous and the interior mountainous, but Gomera has the most
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wood and is the best watered of the
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group . The inhabitants are very poor . Dromedaries are bred on Gomera in large
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numbers .
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San
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Sebastian (3187) is the
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chief
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town and a
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port . It was visited by
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Columbus on his first voyage of
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discovery in 1492 .

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