While the Azores are renown as a stopover on a transatlantic passage, there’s another way to experience the 9-island archipelago straddling 36 to 39N and 25 and 31W — via bareboat from a company that ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a couple who went missing after setting sail for the Azores, Portuguese islands in the North Atlantic, officials said. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Whether it’s to watch whales, taste wine, hike or surf, summer offers the best time to visit Portugal’s North Atlantic islands. Millions of years ago, a dramatic series of volcanic events gave rise to ...

A map has shown the apparent last position of a yacht owned by a couple found dead on a lifeboat. Brett Clibbery, 70, and Sarah Justine Packwood, 54, were reported missing a week on from their voyage.

Pico—one of nine Portuguese Azorean islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that is dominated by a cone volcano—is about three times the size of the U.S. island of Nantucket, or 10% larger than ...

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