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Navarone
Geography
LocationSouth Aegean
Administration
Navarone Island Greece
Capital cityNavarone
Largest settlementMandrakos
Demographics
Ethnic groupsGreeks

Navarone Island is a fictional island portrayed in a novel by Alistair MacLean entitled The Guns of Navarone. The novel was made into a movie, but the film changed some of the geography of the island.[1] Although Navarone does not exist, its history is based on the real history of the Aegean Islands of Greece.

  1. ^ Notably, the town of Margaritha from the novel is renamed Mandrakos. The Guns of Navarone, directed by J. Lee Thompson (Culver City: Columbia Pictures, 1961).

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