Santorini Island consists of semicircular archipelago of volcanic islands located on the southern Aegean Sea, between the islands of Ios and Anafi. In Greek, Santorini is also known as Thira or Thera.
Santorini is a part of the Cycladic group of islands. The area of the island is 96 sq km whereas the coastline surrounding the island stretches for almost 69 km.
The capital of Santorini is Fira and the entire population is about 13,500 people. The main port of this island is Athinios and it gets extremely busy in summer. |
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to a lagoon as the water depth here is 400 meters. This caldera is surrounded by gigantic cliffs on top of which beautiful villages have been constructed.
According to geologists, the first known eruption took place in the year 1,645 BC. This eruption was responsible for the tsunami waves that hit the northern coasts of Crete and destroyed the Minoan civilization that flourished that time.
It is also speculated that the seismic activity of Santorini volcano could be an explanation for the Exodus of Moses and the Jews from Egypt. |
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on the island. Since then, the volcano of Santorini had always alerted scientists and geologists with startling proofs of seismic activity down the years.
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