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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Egypt
- Located in
- Aswan Governorate
- Elevation
- 144
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Image
- Island of Philœ LCCN2004671988.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- different from
- Agilkia island
- Commons category
- Philae
- topic's main category
- Category:Philae
- native label
- Φιλαί
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Encyclopedic overview
1856 photo of the Island of Philae (now submerged) 1809 map of the Island of Philae (now submerged), from the Description de l'Égypte Philae Island was an island near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. Due to the building of the Aswan Low Dam, the island is today submerged. Due to the submerging, the Philae temple complex which had been built on the island, was moved to Agilkia Island.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Philae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.