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9 unusual facts about Santorini


Bettany Hughes

Atlantis: the Evidence (2010): A Timewatch special about the lost continent being the volcanic island of Santorini

Iota Aurigae

During the Extreme Solar Systems conference held on June 25–29, 2007, in Santorini, Greece, Reffert et al. announced the detection of two substellar objects orbiting Iota Aurigae in 2:1 resonance.

Itanos

Herodotus recorded that the settlers from Thera (modern Santorini) who founded Cyrene owed their knowledge of the coast to an Itanian trader named Corobios.

József Szabó de Szentmiklós

In later years he devoted himself largely to petrology, and published memoirs on the trachytes of Hungary and Transylvania; on a new method of determining the species of feldspars in rocks, depending on fusibility and flame-coloration; on the geology and petrology of the district of Schemnitz; and on Santorin Island.

Kirsty McCabe

Further study at the University of Oxford saw her involved in a project to look for evidence of climate change in old volcanic soils on the Greek island of Santorini (Thera).

Lupinus albus

They list a number of archeological findsites that include Bronze age Thera and a number of Roman Egypt sites.

Nilotic landscape

Excavations at Akrotiri on the island of Thera have preserved a number of frescoes dating to the Late Bronze Age.

Ocean Countess

During this employment, cruises usually departed from Piraeus, visiting destinations like Mykonos, Patmos, Crete and Santorini in Greece as well as Kusadasi in Turkey.

Santorini cable car

The Santorini cable car connects the port with the town of Thera in Santorini island in Greece.


1630s BC

Before 1630 BC – 1500 BC—Landscape (Spring fresco), wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades, is made.

Christos G. Doumas

Since 1975, Doumas has been the director of excavations at Akrotiri on the Island of Thera (Santorini), as a successor to Spyridon Marinatos.

Constantinos Decavallas

On returning to Greece, he worked on the Asteras tourist complex in Glyfada, then at the Ministry of Public Works in charge of the reconstruction of Santorini.

Extramural Sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone at Cyrene, Libya

In approximately 630 BC Greeks from the island of Thera colonized Cyrene.

Giada in Paradise

The first episode featured the Greek island of Santorini while the second episode featured the Italian island of Capri.

Monolithos

The book is divided into two sections: One - 1962 contains revised and collected poems from Views of Jeopardy, while Two Monolithos 1982 consists of new poems, written mainly on the Greek islands of Paros and Santorini.

Rebecca Lowe

On 12 June 2013, Lowe married former Torquay, Bristol Rovers & Luton Town manager Paul Buckle in a private ceremony in Santorini, Greece.


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