Santorini caldera
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 367 m (1,204 ft)
- Location
- Aegean Sea , Greece
- Mountain type
- Caldera (active)
- Last eruption
- January to February 1950
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- caldera
- Named after
- Santorini
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Cyclades
- Elevation
- 367
- Image
- Thirasia, Santorini, Greece.jpg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Ancient Greece
- point in time
- 1950-00-00
- Commons category
- Caldera of Santorini
- described by source
- Global Volcanism Program
- inception
- 1613-00-00
- native label
- Καλντέρα της Σαντορίνης
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged volcanic caldera located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece. Visible above water is the circular Santorini island group, consisting of the main island of Santorini (known as Thera in antiquity), Therasia and Aspronisi at the periphery, and the Kameni islands at the center. It has been designated one of the world's sixteen Decade Volcanoes.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Santorini caldera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.