Lampione (Italian pronunciation:[lamˈpjoːne];[1] Sicilian: Lampiuni [lamˈbjuːnɪ]; Arabic: جزيرة الكتاب, Jazīrat al-Kitāb) is a small rocky island located in the Mediterranean Sea, which belongs geographically to the Pelagie Islands and administratively to the comune of Lampedusa e Linosa, Province of Agrigento, region of Sicily, Italy. It is about 200 metres (656 feet) long and 180 metres (591 feet) across, and has an area of 4 hectares (9.9 acres) and a highest elevation of 36 metres (118 feet).
The islet is uninhabited, the only building being a lighthouse. According to the legend, the island was a rock that had fallen from the hands of the cyclops Polyphemus.[2]
Lampione is part of the Riserva Marina Isole Pelagie, and its vegetation and wildlife are strictly protected. Animal species include the endemic Podarcis filfolensis ssp. laurentimulleri (also found on Linosa), which is a subspecies of Maltese wall lizard, numerous migrating birds, and the Armadillidium hirtum pelagicum, a land crustacean. The waters are populated by sharks, including the sandbar shark, groupers, lobsters, and varieties of yellow and pink coral.
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Lampione (Italian pronunciation: [lamˈpjoːne]; Sicilian: Lampiuni [lamˈbjuːnɪ]; Arabic: جزيرة الكتاب, Jazīrat al-Kitāb) is a small rocky island located...
pélagos meaning "open sea", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Lampione, and Linosa, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia...
and Lampione, collectively known as the Pelagie Islands. The municipality of Lampedusa e Linosa includes the isles of Lampedusa, Linosa and Lampione, collectively...
Lampione Lighthouse (Italian: Faro di Lampione) is an active lighthouse located on the western tip of the island of Lampione which makes part of the Pelagie...
of the Northern Hemisphere. Two of the Pelagie Islands (Lampedusa and Lampione) are located on the African continent. The total area of Italy is 301,230 km2...
as other Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish regions such as Lampedusa and Lampione, the Azores and Madeira, and the Canary Islands, which are all closer or...
Pierre, in Réunion. Geographically part of the archipelago (Lampedusa and Lampione) belongs to the African continent; politically and administratively, the...
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literary works, as well as in the founding of the satirical newspaper Il Lampione in 1853. This newspaper was censored by order of the Grand Duke of Tuscany...
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province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and Italy's southernmost island....
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north of the Canary Islands and Italy with the islands of Lampedusa and Lampione off the northern coast of Tunisia. Many continental African countries also...
Linosa and Lampione) is Tunisia on the African mainland. Nevertheless, Pantelleria and Linosa are considered part of Europe, Lampedusa and Lampione part of...
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Malta, Spain (Ceuta, Melilla and Canary Islands), Italy (Lampedusa and Lampione), Portugal (Madeira), France (Réunion and Mayotte) Europe-South America...
like to write some of his own. In 1848, Collodi started publishing Il Lampione, a newspaper of political satire. With the founding of the Kingdom of Italy...
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filfolensis ssp. laurentimulleri, occurs on the Italian islands of Linosa and Lampione. Unlike the males, who have bright colours, young lizards and females have...
e. the cessation of demilitarization of Italy's Panteleria, Lampedusa, Lampione and Linosa islands, and West Germany from the NATO side, and the cessation...
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