FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Antikythira (Αντικύθηρα) is a Greekisland with a land mass of 20 square kilometers, 38 kilometers south-east of Kythira. It is notable for being the location of the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism. Kythira, also known as Kythera, Cythera, Cerigo or Tsirigo, is an island, one of the Ionian Islands. ... Imagine if you had your penis caught in the gears. ...
The very small population are not very welcoming to outsiders, to the extent where they will not sell any food to anyone curious enough to visit the island.
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http://www.antikythira.gr Information in Greek and English
http://www.kythira.info Information in Greek, English and German
http://www.antikythera.8m.com Information in Greek and English
Antikythira is a small island half-way between the North-West of the island of Crete and the South-East of Peloponnese.
It sunk 30 m from the shore of Antikythira at a depth of 60 m.
In the uproar that was created due to the discovery nobody cared about the remnants of a strange looking box that contained some rudimentary traces of a mechanism of some sort in a very bad physical condition.
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