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The Ionian Sea (Greek Ιόνιο Πέλαγος (Ionio Pelagos), Italian Mare Ionio, Albanian Deti Jon) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula, to the west, by southwestern Albania and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east. The islands are collectively referred to as the Ionian Islands, and other islands including the Strophades, Sphagia, Schiza, Sapientza and Kythira. The sea is one of the most seismic areas in the world.
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The Ionian Sea (Greek -- Ionion Pelagos) is another arm of the Mediterranean Sea, separating Greece and Albania from Italy and Sicily. The Ionian Sea is connected with the Adriatic Sea in the north by the Strait of Otranto. The sea forms a deep indentation, the Gulf of Taranto, in the southern coast of Italy between the regions of Calabria and Apulia and a number of deep inlets on the Greek coast, including the Gulf of Corinth.
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A map exhibition on the Ionian Sea is on show at the Eynardos Mansion. The maps come from the collection of the Greek Space Cartography Archive, founded in 2002 with the donation of Mela couple map collection to the National Bank Educational Institute. The Ionian Sea map exhibition –as the two previous exhibitions on Crete and the Peloponnese- aim to indicate the historical significance of the 15th - 18th centuries maps for the periods they depict. Significant cartography material regarding Nafpaktos battle, where the Christian fleet dealt heavy blow to Ottoman fleet, may be for the first time presented in Greece.
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The Ionian Sea, in the contrary to the Aegean’s wild nature, offers the most tranquil sailing in Greece, with safe anchorages in bays surrounded by green olive and pine trees. The NW wind, the Maistro, starts blowing around noon, fades away by sunset and its force is always moderate, never exceeding 5 Beauforts.
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During Leg 15 of R/V Urania 1997 Cruise (Formia 18/11-Messina 11/12), 9 stations in the Ionian Sea (Figure 1) have been investigated with CTD-Rosette hydrological casts. The water samples collecting program was planned to obtain a temporal-spatial matrix of 72 samples in the upper 200 m photic zone (sampling depths: 5, 10, 25, 50, 80, 100, 150, 200 m). Additional samplings have been taken in 3 of the 9 stations every 500 meters depth for the whole water column to compare the composition, the density and the preservation of the calcareous biogenic particles in the water samples with the underlying sediment recovered. Water samples were collected by Niskin bottles (15 L) of the Rosette, interfaced with a Seabird CTD (continuous pressure, temperature, conductivity, oxygen, light attenuation, light scattering profiles). The aim of the research was to quantify the biogenic calcareous particles, focussing on coccospheres and coccoliths, along a W-E transect at different depths in the water column. For each water sampling depth, 6 to 12 liters of sea water were immediately filtered on board on Millipore polycarbonate and cellulose acetate filters (47 mm diameter, 0.45 µm pore size) using a vacuum filtration system.
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The eponym of the Ionian Sea (whose name was more often, particularly by Aeschylus, attributed to Io's voyage; previously the Ionian Gulf was thought to have been called the sea of Cronus and Rhea). Ionius was the son of King Adrias of Illyria who gave his name to the Adriatic.
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