Antros (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 08, 2021 09:51 AM
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History
An island mentioned by Pomponius Mela. It is probably to be identified with the Plateau de Cordouan on which the Phare (lighthouse) de Cordouan stands. It lies in the mouth of the Gironde estuary, near Bordeaux in France.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/138184
45.5877537479, -1.17629143729
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of the Plateau de Cordouan (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Antros (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
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- Antros? Ins. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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island
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 14 D3 Antros? Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Phare-de-Courdouan
H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Antros (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/138184> [accessed: 02 October 2023]
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