Complex sentence: Born in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in Corvo the smallest island of the mid-Atlantic Azores Archipelago, he was the youngest of 11 children from a traditional family of whalers, who had scoured the seven seas since the 1700s.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in Corvo the smallest island of the Azores Archipelago. He was the youngest of 11 children from a traditional family of whalers, who scoured the seven seas since the 1700s.