Talk:Flores Island (Azores)

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Flores, Azores[edit]

The island is part of the Azores archipelago, and as such should be under the name of Flores (Azores). As it is, gives the wrong impression that the island is in Portugal, almost 2000 km to the east. The Azores is an autonomous part of the Portuguese Republic (no to be confused with Portugal): writing Flores (Portugal) makes the same sense as Nuuk (Danmark)...

The name of the Island cannot stem from the hydrangeas, which are not endemic, but rather an exotic plant introduced later in the history of island.

Picuinhas (talk) 01:14, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Rocha dos Bordões photo caption[edit]

I don't see in what way this photo is an ex-libris. It's a very nice image, but doesn't denote ownership of a book. Do you possibly mean the the rock is iconic or something similar? Or representative? Awien (talk) 14:25, 9 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Marooned prisoners jan. 1683[edit]

In january 1683 a mutiny happened on the Danish frigate "Havmannen" ("Neptune") on a voyage from Copenhagen to Sct.Thomas in the West Indies, where captain and 8 officers were killed and thrown overboard.Under deck was 100 inmates from Danish prisons many of them in chains, waiting to serve life sentence as workers in plantations in the West India isles. The ship anchored outside Flores Island and mutineers, pretending to be officers was by the unaware Portugese governor living in "Fasangrande" allowed to put some people ashore while they did necessary maintenance of the ship. Nighttime 100 prisoners - men, women and children - plus a few surviving officers and settlers was forced to disembark whereafter the mutineers left Flores to split goods and values among themselves.The marooned prisoners was not heard of hereafter.The incident is documentet in a diary preserved at the national archives in Copenhagen (Simon Braads journal).Dynamolygte (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]