Canary Islands ocean in the middle of the islands of La Gomera, Tenerife and La Palma; where the laurisilva forests grow. The seven major islands, one minor island, and several small islets were originally volcanic islands, formed by the Canary hotspot. The Canary Islands is the only place in Spain where volcanic eruptions have been recorded during the Modern Era, with some volcanoes still active (El Hierro, 2011). Volcanic islands such as those in the Canary chain often have steep ocean cliffs caused by catastrophic debris avalanches and landslides. The Teide volcano on Tenerife is the highest mountain in Spain, and the
The Natural History of Iceland in an 1870 issue of "Notes and Queries": Although the contributor to "Notes and Queries" remarked that "Horrebow's chapter is ... not so ridiculous as generally supposed", the earlier English translation of the chapter is still much better-known. The phrase "snakes in Iceland" is listed in the "Oxford English Dictionary", where it is traced to the 1758 translation and defined as "something posited only to be dismissed as non-existent". The Natural History of Iceland The Natural History of Iceland () is a natural history of Iceland by Danish lawyer Niels Horrebow. It was first published in Danish in 1752 with