As we were driving through Portugal we noticed there were many cork farms. Portugal is the world’s largest producer of cork. Seventy...

Whaling on Pico island in the Azores was important for the economy of the island. The Azores are a little string of islands in the middle...

Pico Island is one of the islands in the Azores. The water is deep all around the island because it was formed by an underwater volcano....

The Azores is a set of 9 volcanic islands off the coast of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean. While relatively obscure to many of us, the...