Climate of the Earth: The oceanic islands.

It is interesting to make a small turn on different islands of the globe, to see climate...
Here are some places, listed by north to south degrees of latitude:

Ny Alesund,
Spitzberg,
(79°N, 12°O)

Jan Mayen
(70°N, 8°O)

Iles Féroé
(62°N, 7°O)

Galway,
Irlande.
(53°N, 9°O)

Iles d'Ouessant
(48°N, 5°O)

Iles Flores,
Açores.
(39°N, 31°O)

Madères.
(32°N, 17°O)

Las Palmas,
Iles Canaries
(28°N, 15°O)

Honolulu,
Hawaï
(21°N, 158°O)

Wotje Atoll,
iles Marshall
(9°N, 170°O)

Honiara,
Iles Salomon
(9°S, 160°E)

Agalega-Insel,
*
(10°S, 56°O)

Tahiti
(17°S, 149°O)

Plaisance,
Iles Maurices
(20°S, 58°O)

Rapa,
Polynésie
(28°S, 144°O)

Robinson Cr.,
Chili
(34°S, 79°O)

Auckland,
Nouvelle-Zélande
(37°S, 175°E)

Amsterdam Isl,
*
(38°S, 77°O)

Halfmoon Bay,
Nouvelle-Zélande
(47°S, 169°E)

Port-aux-Fançais,
Kerguelen
(49°S, 70°E)

Stanley,
Iles Malouines
(52°S, 58°O)

The common point is a weak difference of temperature between winter and the summer.
However, islands located close to the pole know more difference because of the nearness of ice floe which bring an effect similar to a continental.

Created: 09 janvier 2005.
Updated: 17 June janvier 2007.

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