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Black specks characterize the PGI bananas grown on Fyffes plantations in this archipelago, whose port city of Arguineguin (“ar-GEEN-ee-GEEN”) has become an ad hoc camp for migrants. Apollo 17 astronauts trained near the Fire Mountains in Timanfaya National Park in this archipelago, which is the most populous archipelago in Macaronesia. In a 2019 Romanian (20[1])film, mobsters travel to this archipelago to learn (20[1])(*) “silbo,” a whistle (10[1])language (10[6])used by its (10[1])indigenous (10[6])Guanche people. (10[2])Half of this archipelago is governed by the province of Las Palmas. (10[1])These islands (10[1])south of the Madeira (10[1])Islands (10[1])were the (10[1])last (10[1])Old World (10[1])stopping point on Columbus’s (10[1])voyages. (10[1])For 10 points, Tenerife is part of what (10[1])Spanish-controlled (10[1])islands off the northwest (10[2])African coast? (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

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