page_title: Desertas Islands
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Desertas Islands / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Esperanto: Ilhas Desertas (la dezertaj insuloj) el la arkipelago de Madeira (Madejro), fotitaj el aviadilo en junio 2008. Deutsch: Die Ilhas Desertas in der Inselgruppe Madeira. Aus dem Flugzeug fotografiert, Juni 2008. English: Ilhas Desertas in Madeira archipelago, seen from airplane, june 2008.
context_page_description: The Desertas Islands are a small archipelago, in the Macaronesia region of the Atlantic Ocean. They are within the Portuguese Autonomous Region of Madeira, and part of the larger Madeira Archipelago.
  The archipelago is located off the coast of Morocco. Deserta Grande Island is located about 25 kilometres southeast of the eastern tip of Madeira Island, Ponta de São Lourenço.
context_section_description: The archipelago of the Desertas Islands is a chain of three long and narrow islands that stretch over a north/south distance of 22.3 kilometres (13.9 mi). The Desertas Islands, from north to south with approximate area figures, are:
caption: Aerial view of the Desertas Islands (Ilhas Desertas)
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