Ilhéu Rabo de Junco
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Ilhéu Rabo de Junco
Djeu Rób d Junk
Area: 10,000 m²
Population: Uninhabited
Elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....

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about 20 m
Length: approximately 100 m
Width: approximately 100 m
Location: Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

, nearly 500 m west of the island of Sal
Sal, Cape Verde
Sal is an island in Cape Verde. It belongs to the northern group of islands, called Barlavento. The island is composed by a single administrative division, the Sal municipality. The island is home to Amílcar Cabral International Airport, the main airport of Cape Verde.- Geography :The island is...

Range
Mountain range
A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

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none
Type: stratovolcano


Ilhéu Rabo de Junco (in Cape Verdean Creole, written in ALUPEC
ALUPEC
The Alfabeto Unificado para a Escrita do Caboverdiano , commonly known as ALUPEC, is the alphabet that was officially recognized by the Cape Verdean government to write Cape Verdean Creole.- Description :...

: Djeu Rób d Junk) is an islet located nearly 500 metres west of the nearest point of the island of Sal
Sal, Cape Verde
Sal is an island in Cape Verde. It belongs to the northern group of islands, called Barlavento. The island is composed by a single administrative division, the Sal municipality. The island is home to Amílcar Cabral International Airport, the main airport of Cape Verde.- Geography :The island is...

. They are administratively a part of the municipality of Sal Rei. The islet is a volcanic seamount and was once connected with the rest of the island.

Geography

The islet contains mainly no vegetation. Its length is nearly 100 metres each direction.

Panorama

The islet can definitely be seen from the western part of Sal
Sal, Cape Verde
Sal is an island in Cape Verde. It belongs to the northern group of islands, called Barlavento. The island is composed by a single administrative division, the Sal municipality. The island is home to Amílcar Cabral International Airport, the main airport of Cape Verde.- Geography :The island is...

, the islet can see nearby mountains and parts of the central and the southern portions of the island which is blocked by neighbouring mountains.

Nearest island

  • Sal
    Sal, Cape Verde
    Sal is an island in Cape Verde. It belongs to the northern group of islands, called Barlavento. The island is composed by a single administrative division, the Sal municipality. The island is home to Amílcar Cabral International Airport, the main airport of Cape Verde.- Geography :The island is...

    , east
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