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Aegina Geography, Greece: Information about the geography of Aegina, Saronic

 

 
Aegina is located in the middle of the Saronic Gulf, also called Gulf of Aegina which is the gulf of the Aegean Sea, delimited by the Sounion Cape, on the peninsula of Attica, and the Skellaion Cape, on the peninsula of Argolis of the Greek Peloponnese, south-east of Greece.
 
The island is quite mountainous and rocky; its highest mountain is Mount Oros rising at an altitude of 539 metres.

The capital of the island is Aegina Town, lying on the north-west shore of the island, which is also the main harbour of the island.
 
Aegina is a verdant and fertile island, covered by pine trees and olive trees and producing various kinds of agricultural products such as pistachios, figs, almonds, grapes and olives.

Sponge fishing, farming and tourism are the main sources of income of the inhabitants.
 
The Saronic Gulf is linked to the Gulf of Corinth, to the west, by the Corinth Canal.
Aegina is south-west of Piraeus, at only one hour trip by regular ferry (at 16 nautical miles away), and north of the Peloponnese and Methana. The island is in the middle between the island of Salamis and the island of Poros. Aegina has an area of 85 square kilometres, a coastline of 57 kilometres and a population of about 10.000.
 
Many other natural harbour are scattered around the island.

These are much smaller of the main one they are the ports of the little resorts of Agia Marin, Perdika and Souvala.

On the west of the island is located the biggest of its bays called Marathon Bay, where the Greek ships moored before the Battle of Salamina.
 
Fishing and farming being the most important occupations.
On the west coast of Aegina are the two little islets of Moni and Angistri.

Moni is an almost deserted island reachable from the village of Perdika (10 minutes by taxi-boat).

Angistri is much bigger and has a population of around 500 inhabitants.
 
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