Lampedusa
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Lampedusa is the largest of Italy's Pelagian Islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
Aerial view of Lampedusa
Northeastern cliffs of Lampedusa
Rabbit Beach in the southern part of the island
View of the town of Lampedusa
Pantelleria
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Pantelleria, known in ancient times as Cossyra or Cossura, is an island and comune in the Strait of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea, 106 kilometres southwest of Sicily and 68 km east of the Tunisian c
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…workers. A royal commission stated in an 1812 report that there would be considerable difficulties in turning the island (together with Linosa and Pantelleria) into a supply base for Malta. The commission found Fernandez's situation to be very strange, and the treasury demanded an explanation of his conduct…
View of Pantelleria
3rd century B.C. Cossura bronze coin showing a portrait of Isis with Punic legend (23 mm, 12.18 g)
One of the sesi (burial tombs) on Pantelleria.
Volcanic rocks in Pantelleria