A shaded-relief portrait of Mallorca, from the limestone ridges of the Serra de Tramuntana to the central plain and the Mediterranean coast.
A shaded-relief portrait of Mallorca, from the limestone ridges of the Serra de Tramuntana to the central plain and the Mediterranean coast.
The Tramuntana runs the length of the north-west coast as one continuous wall of relief, rising to Puig Major at 1,436 metres, while the island opens out behind it into the Pla de Mallorca and the lower hills of the Serres de Llevant to the east. Palma, the bays of Pollença and Alcúdia, Sa Dragonera and Cabrera are all in the frame.
The island is set against a deep-blue sea drawn from bathymetric data, so the shelf that carries Mallorca shows beneath the water as clearly as the mountains do above it. Place names are in Catalan, with a scale bar and coordinates in the margin.