Made up of one 28.5-sq-km chunk of volcanic rock and 20 smaller islands, this remote archipelago was first discovered in the early 16th Century by the eponymous Portuguese seaman Fernando de Noronha.

With a little over 3,000 regular inhabitants, the island of Fernando de Noronha (State of Pernambuco) receives more than 90 thousand tourists annually. These are people who don't mind paying an ...

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