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Banyuwangi, previously known as Banjoewangi, is the administrative capital of Banyuwangi Regency at the far eastern end of the island of Java, Indonesia. It had a population of 106,000 at the 2010 census [1] and 117,558 at the 2020 census. [2] The town is also known as city of festival as many festivals are held throughout the year. [3]
The Peloponnese is a peninsula located at the southern tip of the mainland, 21,549.6 square kilometres (8,320.3 sq mi) in area, and constitutes the southernmost part of mainland Greece. It is connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth , where the Corinth Canal was constructed in 1893.
Kalogria beach panorama from dune. Kalogria beach (Greek: Παραλία Καλόγριας) [1] is the name of a sandy and award-winning with Blue Flag beach [2] that is located in the vicinity of the village Araxos, in Northwestern Peloponnese, Greece.
Upon granting of the Ionian Islands to Greece in 1864 the extreme points of the country were modified as follows: North & West: Sazan Island (Sason, Saso) (40°30′N 19°17′E) at the entrance of the Bay of Vlorë (Aulon, Avlona) South: Antikythera (35°52′N 23°18′E)
The Corinth Canal (Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου, romanized: Dioryga tis Korinthou) is an artificial canal in Greece that connects the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and "separates" the Peloponnese peninsula from the rest Greek mainland.
Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. [5] It is bordered to the north by Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria; to the east by Turkey, and is surrounded to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from Italy.
The remains of the shipwreck are located about 15–30 metres (50–100 ft) underwater off the coast of southern Greece near the island of Dokos (ancient name Aperopia) in the Aegean Sea. [3] Dokos is about 100 kilometres (60 mi) east of Sparta, Peloponnese. [4] The ship itself is long gone, as everything biodegradable has been dissolved by the ...
Location of Calypso Deep. Calypso Deep is the deepest point in the Mediterranean Sea , located in the Hellenic Trench in the Ionian Sea , 62.6 km south-west of Pylos , Greece, with a maximum depth of approximately 5,200 m (17,100 ft). [ 1 ]