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  2. Chryse and Argyre - Wikipedia

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    A modern facsimile of Martin Behaim's 1492 Erdapfel map. Chryse and Argyre are in the same map section as Cipangu (Japan) on the right, with Chryse just to the west of its southern tip, labelled Crisis and colored yellow-brown; Argyre is to the southwest of Chryse, labelled Argire and colored white. Note the absence of the Americas.

  3. Fortunate Isles - Wikipedia

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    The Fortunate Isles or Isles of the Blessed [1] [2] (Ancient Greek: μακάρων νῆσοι, makarōn nēsoi) [3] were semi-legendary islands in the Atlantic Ocean, variously treated as a simple geographical location and as a winterless earthly paradise inhabited by the heroes of Greek mythology.

  4. List of islands of Greece - Wikipedia

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    The second largest island in area is Euboea or Evvia, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the Central Greece region. After the third and fourth largest Greek islands, Lesbos and Rhodes , the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.

  5. Lost lands - Wikipedia

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    A large island in the Mediterranean Sea, of which Malta is the only part not now submerged. Balkanatolia, a sunken land in the Mediterranean Sea. Beringia, connecting Asia and North America. Doggerland, the bed of the North Sea, which once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe before being inundated by rising sea levels during the Holocene

  6. List of islands by area - Wikipedia

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    This list includes all islands in the world larger than 1,000 km 2 (390 sq mi). For size and location reference, the four continental landmasses are also shown. Continental landmasses Continental landmasses are not usually classified as islands despite being completely surrounded by water. [Note 1] However, because the definition of continent varies between geographers, the Americas are ...

  7. Rodrigues - Wikipedia

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    The island is hilly with a central spine culminating in the highest peak, Mountain Limon at 398 m (1,306 ft). Rodrigues is the only Mascarene island with extensive limestone deposits and caves. A large fringing reef surrounds the island forming a lagoon within which lie eighteen small islets. [13] [14]

  8. Milos - Wikipedia

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    Milos or Melos (/ ˈ m iː l ɒ s,-l oʊ s /; Modern Greek: Μήλος, romanized: Mílos, IPA:; Ancient Greek: Μῆλος, romanized: Mêlos) is a volcanic Greek island in the Aegean Sea, just north of the Sea of Crete. Milos is the southwestern-most island in the Cyclades group.

  9. Amorgos - Wikipedia

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    Amorgos (Greek: Αμοργός, Amorgós; pronounced) is the easternmost island of the Cyclades island group and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group in Greece.