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D. Spain completed its conquest of the Canary Islands in 1496, and the Canaries were the main stopover for Spanish galleons on their way to the Americas during the era of the Spanish Empire.
C. The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. Trade winds have been used by captains of sailing ships to cross the world's oceans for centuries. They enabled Christopher Columbus to reach the Caribbean Sea and Europe’s colonial expansion into the Americas.
C. Canariae Insulae is Latin for "Islands of the Dogs." According to a Roman historian, one of the islands contained "vast multitudes of dogs of very large size." The wild canary is a bird native to the Atlantic islands of the Canaries the Azores, and Madeira. The bird is named after the Canary Islands, not the other way around.
A. More than 9,300 migrants from West Africa have arrived in the Canary Islands by sea in the first eight months of 2021, a big increase from 2020 when 3,933 arrived. Migrant deaths along the most treacherous route to a European Union territory reached a record high last month, with 379 lives lost, the International Organization for Migration said last week. Migrants who survive the sea voyage have not been allowed to go on to the Spanish mainland.