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Alicudi
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Alicudi () is the westernmost of the seven islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago, a volcanic island chain north of Sicily. The island is about west of Lipari, has a total area of , and is roughly circular.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Alicudi
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Island
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Aerial image of Alicudi (view from the south).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Aerial view of Alicudi from the south
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sicily#Italy
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Italy
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Messina
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Comune
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lipari
- Settlement.seat_type
- Municipality seat
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 5.2
- Settlement.elevation_max_m
- 675
- Settlement.population_total
- 120
- Settlement.population_density_km2
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demography
- See also
- Notes and references
- External links
Alicudi () is the westernmost of the seven islands that make up the Aeolian archipelago, a volcanic island chain north of Sicily. The island is about west of Lipari, has a total area of , and is roughly circular.
==History== The island was formed by the long-extinct Montagnola volcano, roughly 150,000 years ago. It has been suggested that the last evolutive act of the island took place only 27,000 years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alicudi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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