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Santorini is one of the southernmost islands of the Cyclades archipelago in the Aegean Sea.
Its distance from the port of Piraeus in Athens is 240 km, from Heraklion in Crete 128 km and from the island of Rhodes 235 km. The island is usually called Santorini, but its official name is Thera, and Thera is also the name of the capital of the administrative unit of the same name within the Cyclades province.
The coast of the island is about 70 km long.
The whole group consists of the main and largest island of Santorini, also called Thera in the shape of a horseshoe, the smaller island of Therasia northeast of Thera and the even smaller uninhabited islet of Aspronisi in the middle of the open "horseshoe" towards the Aegean Sea. In addition, there are three small conical volcanic islands inside the large bay, namely Palia Kaméni, Néa Kaméni and Mikri Kaméni. The distance from the northernmost point to the southernmost point is approx. 18 km. The width varies between 2 and 6 km. The highest mountains are Profitis Ilias (567 m a.s.l.), Megalo Vounó (353 m a.s.l.) and Mikros Profitis Ilias (337 m a.s.l.), and besides them there are a number of smaller hills.
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