Fortunate Isles, also called Isles of the Blest (makarôn nêsoi). Favored mortals in classical and Celtic legend were received by the gods into this blissful paradise. These islands were thought to lie in the Western Ocean; the Madeira and the Canary Islands have sometimes been cited as possible matches. Modern ecology names these islands as Macaronesia.
HesperidesHesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far west corner of the world, located, according to various sources, in the Arcadian Mountains in Greece, near the Atlas mountains in Libya, or on a distant island at the edge of the ocean.
Additionally, Hesperides (also called Fortunate Isles) is a name given by the ancients to a series of islands located to the extreme west of the then known world.
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