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Integrated map of Crete island, Greece: Date: December 2007: Source: Own work, based on Image:Crete_topographic_map-fr.svg (modified and translated) created by myself ; Compass rose : Image:Brújula.svg (modified) created by Serg!o under GFDL: Author: Eric Gaba : Permission (Reusing this file)
Kaloi Limenes or Kali Limenes (Greek: Καλοί Λιμένες [kaliˈ liménes]) is a village and port in the Heraklion regional unit, southern Crete, in Greece, located 70km (43.5 miles) south-west of the city of Heraklion. It has 17 inhabitants (2021). [1] It is known as a major bunkering spot for ships in the southern Mediterranean. [2]
The Map has been updated to include some missing territories of Greece; fixed outline and color differences for some Greek islands in the Ionian and Aegean Seas that could confuse the readers. 22:34, 16 January 2015: 7,304 × 7,315 (1.74 MB) SilentResident
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Greece has many islands, [Note 1] with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 [1] to 6,000, [2] depending on the minimum size to take into account. The number of inhabited islands is variously cited as between 166 [3] and 227. [2] The largest Greek island by both area and population is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea.
Until the 3rd millennium BC, Piraeus was a rocky island connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year. It was then that the area was increasingly silted and flooding ceased, thus permanently connecting Piraeus to Attica and forming its ports, the main port of Cantharus and the two smaller of Zea and Munichia.
Ferry routes to and from Piraeus and Heraklion, as well as the southern islands of the Aegean and the Dodecanese, run in this area. Just off the coastline of Northeastern Crete, the sea reaches a maximum depth of near 3,293 m (10,000 ft). [citation needed] Other sources (maps) show a maximum depth of 2,591 m (8,500 ft).
The Red Bull King of the Air international kitesurfing competition was held at Ho'okipa from 1999-2005. [3] Hookipa Beach, surfing on Maui, Hawaii. Like many locations on the Maui and Oahu North Shore, Ho'okipa Beach is occasionally a tourist attraction in the winter time because of spectacularly large surf. In the afternoon on 15 December 2004 ...