Medical Definition of equivalent. 1  1: corresponding or virtually identical especially in effect or function drugs that are therapeutically equivalent. 2  2: having the same chemical combining capacity equivalent quantities of two elements.
Geography. All the nine islands of the Azores Archipelago are volcanic origin and are located in the North Atlantic, scattered along a 600 km stretch of ocean from Santa Maria to Corvo, approximately between 37Â° and 40Â° north latitude and 25Â° and 31Â° west longitude.he islands of the archipelago are divided in three geographical groups: the Eastern Group, comprising Santa Maria and Sao SÃ£o, miguel The Central, group Including, Terceira, Graciosa Sao, SÃ£o jorge Pico, and faial And The, western group Composed by Corvo. and flores
The Santa Cruz Islands are located 250 miles (400 km.) southeast of the Solomon Islands. The Santa Cruz Islands, with a population of about 6,000 people, are politically part of the Temotu province of the Solomon Islands which are an independent country in the south Pacific. The Solomon Islands are roughly one thousand in number with a total land area of 10,965 square miles (24,800 square kilometers).