South of the Azores, but only about 100 to 150 kilometres from  the African coast are the Canary Islands, also volcanic, and also the scene  of recent eruptions. 
South and west of the Canaries, the Atlantic extends emptily for thousands  of kilometres, broken only by the Cape Verde Islands (also volcanic) and  two tiny specks of land, St Peter and St Paul's Rocks, which are not  strictly volcanic, oddly enough, but are composed of material that must  have been <tag "515674">derived</> from much deeper levels in the Earth than most volcanic  rocks.   

