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Nea Kameni Volcano

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Nea Kameni Volcano

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    May 24, 2020

    We visited Nea Kameni from a boat tour and it was well worth. Expect to see rocks and landscapes from the moon! It was a short walk to get to the top where you can take some great panoramics and also see some active sulfur vents.

    "Nea Kameni is a small uninhabited Greek island of volcanic origin located in the Aegean Sea, within the flooded Santorini caldera. Nea Kameni and the neighbouring small island Palea Kameni (the new and old burnt islands) have formed over the past two millennia through repeated eruptions of dacite lava and ash. The Roman historian Cassius Dio records in the year 47 CE "This year a small islet, hitherto unknown, made an appearance close to the island of Thera." Cassius' report may refer to Palaia Kameni. Pliny the Elder reports a new island emerging during on July 8, in the year of the consulship of M. Junius Silanus and L. Balbus, thus 19 CE.

    Major eruptions over the past 300 years took place in 1707–1712, 1866–1870, 1925–1928, and 1939–1941. The last small eruption happened in 1950 and involved lava dome extrusion.

    Nea Kameni is nearly round, and has a diameter of approximately 2 kilometers and an area of 3.4 km2. It is monitored closely by scientists from the Institute for the Study and Monitoring of the Santorini Volcano (ISMOSAV), and is a protected scientific site. The island has many active sulfur vents, as well as a carpet of red grassy succulents on the thin soil in the summertime.

    The nearly barren island is visited daily by dozens of tourist boats throughout the summer. Visitors climb a gravel path to reach the top of the 130-meter-high volcanic crater, where it is possible to complete a full circuit of the rim."

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      December 24, 2022

      Really bizarre landscapes, extraordinary.

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        March 5, 2024

        From the port it takes 25 minutes to walk to the volcano and 25 minutes to return. If you travel from Santorini with the usual boat tours, you have very little time.

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