Spanning 74 acres in the Ionian Sea, Skorpios sits off the west coast of mainland Greece.

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The beach is gorgeous and fronts the same enticing Ionian Sea that is such a draw in Ithaca.

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Some of Croton's citizens surmise that colonisers who sought advice from Apollo's Oracle were given accurate information on the best sites across the Ionian sea.

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Dr Frantzis, who has just published his data in Nature, studies Cuvier's beaked whale a denizen of the Ionian sea off Greece's west coast, among other places.

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Within 20 minutes lay several sandy beaches on the Ionian Sea, there are two 18-hole golf courses nearby, and the region is teeming with historic sighs, from ancient Greek ruins to Neolithic cave dwellings.

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The reported Mediterranean tsunamis mainly occurred in the most seismic and volcanically active regions like the Aegean, Ionian and Tyrrhenian seas, the sea of Marmara, along the Algerian coast and Cyprus.

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