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PALMA, or SAN MIGUEL DE LA PALMA

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALMA, or See also:SAN See also:MIGUEL DE LA PALMA  , a See also:Spanish See also:island in the See also:Atlantic Ocean, forming See also:part of the See also:Canary Islands (q.v.) . Pop . (1900), 41,994; See also:area 28o sq. m . See also:Palma is 26 m. See also:long, with an extreme breadth of 16 in . It lies 67 m . W.N.W. of See also:Teneriffe . It is traversed from See also:north to See also:south by a See also:chain of mountains, the highest of which is 7900 ft. above See also:sea-level . At the broadest part is a See also:crater g m. in See also:diameter, known as the Caldera (i.e. cauldron) . The bottom of the crater has an See also:elevation of 2300 ft., and it is overhung by peaks that rise more than 5000 ft. above it . Palma contains several See also:mineral springs, but there is See also:great want of fresh See also:water . The only stream which is never dried up is that which issues from the Caldera . In 1677 an eruption, preceded by an See also:earthquake, took See also:place from a See also:volcano at the See also:southern extremity of the island, and much damage was done .

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Santa Cruz de la Palma (pop . 7024) on the eastern See also:coast is the See also:principal See also:town . The anchorage is See also:good .

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