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
Natural History of the Canary Islands systematic botany and geo-botany, also in certain different Canarian zoology. The themes of the work is very broad and surpasses which was traditionally for natural history - a name which was later replaced with natural sciences, for which more of it broadened the three kingdoms of nature, geology, botany and zoology), dedicaded a part of the work to physical, botanical, economic and human geography, and questions of history and ethnography of the Canaries. Philip Barker-Webb, on one of his trips to the Brazilian expedition, planned a short visit to the Canary Islands, instead, he stayed for a longer time. During