Elasa
Sign in to saveElasa () is an island that can be found northeast of Crete in the Aegean Sea, about from the palm tree forest of Vai. It is rocky and uninhabited covering . Its highest point is above sea level. Administratively it comes within the Itanos municipality in Lasithi.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Elasa
- Islands.native_name
- Ελάσα
- Islands.native_name_lang
- el
- Islands.image_name
- Elasa.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- Elasa island on the right.Kyriamadi island on the left.
- Islands.map
- Greece
- Islands.archipelago
- Cretan Islands
- Islands.area_km2
- 1.746
- Islands.highest_mount
- 79
- Islands.country
- Greece
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Region
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Crete
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Regional unit
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Lasithi
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_2
- Municipality
- Islands.population
- 0
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2001
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Sitia Municipality
- Area
- 1.746
- Elevation
- 79
- Body of water
- Aegean Sea
- Image
- Elasa.jpg
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- Elasa Island, Crete
- native label
- Ελάσα
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Environmentally protected area
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Elasa () is an island that can be found northeast of Crete in the Aegean Sea, about from the palm tree forest of Vai. It is rocky and uninhabited covering . Its highest point is above sea level. Administratively it comes within the Itanos municipality in Lasithi.
==Environmentally protected area== Elasa is a neighbour of the Dionysades islands and is part of an environmentally protected area with many rare plants and animals including the Mediterranean monk seal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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