Palea Kameni
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Stuart Dunn
Creators: Stuart Dunn
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 19, 2025 08:44 PM
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History
Palea Kameni is the smaller of the two volcanogenic islands in the centre of the Santorini caldera, formed over the last two millennia. It was most likely formed before or during the major period of volcanic activity in A.D. 1866-1870.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/194521550
36.3973896173, 25.3795202806
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Palea Kameni (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Palea Kameni succeeds Caimeni (unspecified date range)
- Palea Kameni part of (physical/topographic) Santorini Archipelago (unspecified date range)
- Palea Kameni connection Thera (unspecified date range)
- Palea Kameni connection Thera (island) (unspecified date range)
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Stuart Dunn, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Palea Kameni: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/194521550> [accessed: 21 April 2025]
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