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Period: 90 to 168
1492
Before Columbus sailed past El Hierro in 1492, the island was considered the most westerly point of land on Earth. When Ptolemy (90AD-168AD) developed the idea of a prime meridian in the second century, he drew the first line through what we now call the Canary Islands. -
Period: 1546 to
1546
In 1546, sailors drifting for days in calm water off the coast of El Hierro went ashore and gave the islanders an image of the Virgin Mary that they had been carrying for delivery to the New World. -
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1996
Since 1996, El Hierro has worked steadily at becoming the first energy-independent island in the world that is powered only by renewable energy sources. -
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2014
In August 2014, the Spanish Minister of Industry gave the multinational oil company Repsol permission to drill three exploratory deep-water perforations in the ocean seabed near the Canary Islands -
Energy and El hierro
Energy independence is independence or autarky regarding energy resources, energy supply and/or energy generation by the energy industry. Before energy technology they relied on religion and praying to the Virgin Mary for the weather they needed.
