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number of islands 5 main island Thira entire country area 92,5 km² capital Fira population 17.430Santorini is a natural phenomenon of a special kind. Once a green and fertile island in the middle of an island ring, Santorini is perhaps "the lost city of Atlantis", reported by Plato. The big catastrophe about 3,600 years ago, as the island volcano Thera has exploded, has changed the face of the landscape permanently.
(Sources: wikipedia.org 2016; www.thira.gr 2016, Google Maps 2016)
The Formation of the Island
The group of islands of Santorini began her journey through the time about 2,000,000 years ago during the Pleistocene period. The Aegean archipelago at that time did not exist. The entire region of the Aegean Sea, and much of the current Greek mainland were covered by a single landmass.
It made the traffic over the land between Greece and todays Asia Minor possible. This is the explanation of why fossils have been found of large mammals such as elephants on many Aegean islands.