Pergousa

Pergousa (Περγούσα)
Waters	Mediterranean Sea
Archipelago	Dodecanese
Geographical location	36 ° 35 ′ N , 27 ° 2 ′ E Coordinates: 36 ° 35 ′ N , 27 ° 2 ′ E
length	1.9 km
width	1.1 km
surface	1.169 km²
Highest elevation	83 m
Residents	uninhabited

The small, uninhabited Greek island of Pergousa [ pɛrˈɣusa ] ( Greek Περγούσα ( f. Sg. ), Trans . Also Pergoussa ) is administered by the municipality of Nisyros in the South Aegean region .

location

Pergousa is located in the eastern Aegean Sea about 10 km southeast of Cape Krikelos (Ακρωτήριο Κρίκελος), the southern tip of Kos . Gyali Island is 8.6 km northeast and Nisyros 8 km east. The also uninhabited island of Pachia is about 2.3 km southeast. From north to south the island has a length of a little more than 1.9 km, the widest point in the north of the island is about 1.1 km, the narrowest point in the south about 350 m.

Like Nisyros and southern Kos, Pergousa and Pachia are located on the eastern Aegean arch and are of volcanic origin.

history

Neolithic ceramics and obsidian from the Cycladic island of Milos and the nearby island of Gyali have been found on Pergousa.

From the 4th century BC There are remains of a watchtower on the island.

fauna

For the first time in 1993 occurrences of the Cycladic wall lizard ( Podarcis erhardii ) east of the Central Aegean Rift on Pergousa and Pachia were detected.

Web links

General information about Pergousa , Greek

Individual evidence

^ Charles Arnold (ed.): The islands of the Mediterranean . A unique and complete overview. 2nd Edition. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86648-096-4 .
^ Tracey Cullen: Aegean prehistory: a review . Archaeological Institute of America, 2001, ISBN 0-9609042-4-7 , pp. 506 .
↑ 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 .
↑ The structures of the Paleocastro (IV. Cent. BC) of the Nisyros island and the coeval towers of Pergousa: building techniques, nature and sourceland of the materials, seismic volcanic hazard [1]
↑ PDF at www.biol.uoa.gr
↑ 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 .

[Arnold-1] Charles Arnold (ed.): The islands of the Mediterranean . A unique and complete overview. 2nd Edition. marebuchverlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86648-096-4 .

[2] Tracey Cullen: Aegean prehistory: a review . Archaeological Institute of America, 2001, ISBN 0-9609042-4-7 , pp. 506 .

[3] 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 .

[4] The structures of the Paleocastro (IV. Cent. BC) of the Nisyros island and the coeval towers of Pergousa: building techniques, nature and sourceland of the materials, seismic volcanic hazard [1]

[5] PDF at www.biol.uoa.gr

[6] Efstratios D Valakos, Panagiota Maragou & Moysis Mylonas: Podarcis erhardii (Erhard's wall lizard) . In: Herpetological Review . No. 30 , 1999, pp. 52-53 .

[7] Podarcis erhardii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .