Antimilos
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Antimilos (; ) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group, northwest of Milos. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Milos. Antimilos is an uninhabited mass of trachyte (671 m height), often called Erimomilos (Desert Milos). It is a volcanic island and the crater is still obvious. Ancient inhabitants transformed the crater to an open rain tank. On the island lives a rare variation of the common goat called Capra aegagrus pictus. It is similar but not the same as the Cretan goat known as "kri-kri" (Capra aegagrus creticus).
Key facts
- Islands.elevation_m
- 671
- Islands.name
- Antimilos
- Islands.native_name
- Αντίμηλος
- Islands.native_name_lang
- el
- Islands.image_name
- File:Antimiloy.JPG
- Islands.image_caption
- View from Milos in August 2014.
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- Greece
- Islands.archipelago
- Cyclades
- Islands.country
- Greece
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Region
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- South Aegean
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Regional unit
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Milos
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- Municipality
- Islands.population
- 0
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2001
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Part of
- Cyclades
- Country
- Greece
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 8.00
- Elevation
- 671
- Body of water
- Aegean Sea
- Location
- Aegean Sea
- Image
- Andimilos.jpg
- Width
- 2.9
- Length
- 4.2
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- Commons category
- Antimilos
- located in/on physical feature
- Cyclades
- native label
- Αντίμηλος
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
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Antimilos (; ) is a Greek island in the Cyclades group, northwest of Milos. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Milos. Antimilos is an uninhabited mass of trachyte (671 m height), often called Erimomilos (Desert Milos). It is a volcanic island and the crater is still obvious. Ancient inhabitants transformed the crater to an open rain tank. On the island lives a rare variation of the common goat called Capra aegagrus pictus. It is similar but not the same as the Cretan goat known as "kri-kri" (Capra aegagrus creticus).
==History== According to an interpretation of Homer's Odyssey, it is the island of the sun god Helios, where Odysseus's companions slaughtered the sacred cattle of the sun god. Previously, the island was also known by the name Ephyra () or Ephora (Έφορα, meaning "watchtower"), because one could observe the sea from its highest point over long distances.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Antimilos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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