This beautiful little Island is located about 500km west of Africa and belongs to the Canary Islands. It's origin is vulcanic. So you find black lava coasts with steep cliffs.
In the ancient world "El Hierro" was considered as western end of the world. For that reason this island was used in various parts of Europe as zero meridian for the coordination system before the greenwich meridian was created in 1884. On his second voyage Christoph Columbus started from here into the new world.
All over the Island you can discover bizzare lava rock formations which show the vulcanic character of this Island.
There is much more to discover on El Hierro, my favorite Island, which I will show in future posts...
All photos are my own work.
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!steemitworldmap 27.736479 lat -18.007434 long El Hierro D3SCR