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Keros (Greek: Κέρος; anciently, Keria or Kereia (Ancient Greek: Κέρεια [1])) is an uninhabited and unpopulated Greek island in the Cyclades about 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisia. It has an area of 15 km 2 (6 sq mi) and its highest
Head of a female figure, Keros-Syros culture, Early Cycladic II (2700–2300 BC), Louvre. At the end of the 19th century, following the earlier work of antiquaries such as Theodore Bent on Antiparos in 1884, [10] the Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas, having assembled various discoveries from numerous islands, suggested that the Cyclades were part of a cultural unit during the 3rd ...
Ferdinandea, submerged volcanic island which has appeared at least four times in the past. Kerguelen Plateau, a submerged micro-continent which is now 1–2 kilometres (0.62–1.2 miles) below sea level. Maui Nui, once a large island of the Hawaii archipelago; several major islands represent residual high ground of Maui Nui.
Archaeologists in each island give regular talks on their work and summer digs in the islands usually require helpers and volunteers. Interest in the archaeology of the islands is first recorded in the 16th century. By the 18th century articles were being published in magazines with engravings explaining interesting historic sites. [3]: 24–5
Cranae or Kranai (Greek: Κρανάη) (also Marathonisi) is an island off the coast of Gytheio (ancient Gythium) connected to the land by a causeway built in 1898. Etymology [ edit ]
The island, the remains of an ancient volcano, [2] is elongated, with a length of 3 kilometres (2 miles) and a maximum width of about 800 metres (2,600 feet). The municipality includes the small ancillary island of Santo Stefano, located 2 km (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 mi) to the east, which was the site of a massive prison, now closed.
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Herodotus (430 BC) had only vaguely heard of the Cassiterides, "from which we are said to have our tin", but did not discount the islands as legendary. [2] Later writers—Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, [3] Strabo [4] and others—call them smallish islands off ("some way off," Strabo says) the northwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula, which contained tin mines or, according to Strabo, tin and ...