Pachia
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| Waters | Mediterranean Sea | |
| Archipelago | Dodecanese | |
| Geographical location | 36 ° 34 ′ N , 27 ° 4 ′ E | |
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| length | 1.96 km | |
| width | 850 m | |
| surface | 1.184 km² | |
| Highest elevation | 137 m | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The small uninhabited Greek island of Pachia ( Greek Παχειά or Παχιά [ paˈça ] ( f. Sg. )) Is administered by the municipality of Nisyros in the South Aegean region .
location
Pachia is located in the eastern Aegean about 14 km southeast of Cape Krikelos (Ακρωτήριο Κρίκελος) the southern tip of Kos and a little more than 4 km west of Nisyros. The also uninhabited island of Pergousa is about 2.3 km to the northwest. In the west-east direction the island has a length of a little more than 1.9 km in the middle of the island the width is about 850 m.
Like Nisyros and southern Kos, Pachia lies together with Pergousa on the eastern Aegean arch and is of volcanic origin.
On Pachia there are ruins of two watchtowers from the 4th century BC. Chr.
fauna
On Pachia and Pergousa, occurrences of the Cycladic wall lizard ( Podarcis erhardii ) east of the Central Aegean Rift were first detected in 1993 .
Web links
- General information about Pachia , English
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Arnold (ed.): The islands of the Mediterranean . A unique and complete overview. 2nd Edition. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 3-86648-096-2 .
- ↑ Christy Constantakopoulou: The dance of the islands: insularity, networks, the Athenian empire, and the Aegean world . Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-921595-9 , pp. 330, 194 .
- ↑ biol.uoa.gr (PDF)
- ↑ Efstratios D. Valakos, Panagiota Maragou, Moysis Mylonas: Podarcis erhardii (Erhard's wall lizard) . In: Herpetological Review . No. 30 , 1999, pp. 52-53 .
- ↑ Podarcis erhardii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .