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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 .
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.
Icaria or Ikaria (Ancient Greek: Ἰκαρία), also known as Icarium or Ikarion (Ἰκάριον), was a deme of ancient Attica on the northeastern slopes of Mount Pentelikon. It holds pride of place due to its prominence in Greek mythology as the place where Icarius , or Ikarios (Ικάριος) received the god Dionysus , who taught him the ...
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.
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Together with other settlements, it forms the municipal unit of Evdilos and had 2,996 permanent inhabitants at the 2021 census. The municipal unit has a land area of 78.790 km², [3] and is the second-largest of the three on Icaria both in population and land area. It shares the island of Icaria with the municipal units of Agios Kirykos and Raches.
The Thaumasia quadrangle contains many different regions or parts of many regions: Solis Planum, Icaria Planum, Aonia Terra, Aonia Planum, Bosporus Planum, and Thaumasia Planum. [3] One of the first major networks of stream channels, called Warrego Valles, were discovered here by early orbiters.