association between the modern island of Terceira and these stories, was that of the island of Brasil; it first appears as Insula de Brasil in the Venetian map of...

Heroísmo, 1974. Fernado Pessoa e a ilha Terceira (Fernando Pessoa and the Island of Terceira), 123 pp., Colecção Ínsula (Insular Collection), Angra do Heroísmo...

the strange inscriptions found along the coast of Quatro Ribeiras (on Terceira): all unsubstantiated stories that supported the claims of human visitation...

Rex Tholomeus portolan chart dated to circa 1360. Later it appeared as Insula de Brasil in the Venetian map of Andrea Bianco (1436), attached to one of...

Cidades. The region received its geographic nomenclature from the Latin Insula Septem Civitatum, which means Island of the Seven Tribes or Island of the...

of Faial first appeared on the 1375 Catalan Atlas, as Ilha da Ventura or Insula de La Ventura (English: Venture Island). By 1427 they had discovered what...

Brasil. Many 14th-century nautical maps denoted a phantom island called insula brasil in the north Atlantic Ocean, usually circular in shape and located...

it did not specify an island of Corvo, the Medici Atlas did refer to an Insula Corvi Marini ('Island of the Marine Crow'), in a seven-island archipelago...

1475, Pico is described both as Dom Diniz (or São Diniz) island and as Insula Columbi. Although the Azores were inhabited since 1439, settlement on Pico...

is the individually named Insula Brasi ("island of embers/fire" (volcanic?) or "dyewood", either of which point to Terceira, but could also be the legendary...

videtur dici Terra de piccinacoli. Forte Iabadii insula est Ptolomeo si modo insula est, nam sitne insula an pars continentis australis ignotum adhuc est...

dipendenza, 1996, Insula, Nuoro, 978-88-86111-04-1 Palo Pisu, Partito comunista di Sardegna: storia di un sogno interrotto, 1996, Insula, Nuoro, 88-86111-06-1...