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Icaria, also spelled Ikaria (Greek: Ικαρία, ), is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) southwest of Samos. Administratively, Icaria forms a separate municipality within the Ikaria regional unit , which is part of the North Aegean region .
Horace makes a reference to Icarian waves in Liber I, Carmen I, line 15 ("Ad Maecenatem"); [2] the first stanza of his Ode 4.2 also alludes to the Icarian Sea. [3]Strabo states that it connects with the Carpathian Sea on the south, and on the West with the Cretan Sea.
Aegean Sea Islands map showing island groups Satellite view of the Aegean Sea and Islands. The Aegean Islands [a] are the group of islands in the Aegean Sea, with mainland Greece to the west and north and Turkey to the east; the island of Crete delimits the sea to the south, those of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kasos to the southeast.
In 2003, Syracuse University Press published a translation by Leslie J. Roberts [d], Travels in Icaria. [13] A basic plot outline was published by Morris Hillquit in 1903: Lord Carisdall, a young English nobleman, has by chance learned of the existence of a remote and isolated country known as Icaria.
A blue zone is a region in the world where people are claimed to have exceptionally long lives beyond the age of 80 due to a lifestyle combining physical activity, low stress, rich social interactions, a local whole-foods diet, and low disease incidence. [1]
Icaria Planum is a region on Mars in the Thaumasia quadrangle. It is located roughly south-southwest of the Tharsis Rise. Icaria Planum is named after the island of Ikaria, where, according to Greek mythology, Icarus fell and died in the sea. [1] Icaria Planum is relatively ancient and cratered, with an estimated age of 3.59 billion years.
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Dracanum or Drakanon (Ancient Greek: Δράκονον) was a town of ancient Greece on the island of Icaria.It was located on the easternmost point of the island, on a cape of the same name.