Skerki Bank
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 03, 2023 09:09 PM
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History
The Skerki Bank is an area of relatively shallow open sea lying between Sicily and Tunisia. The presence of several reefs made the area perilous for ancient mariners and, from 1988 onward, ancient shipwrecks have been investigated in this area.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/496655387
37.75, 10.83333
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- GeoNames location of Skerki Bank (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Skerki Bank: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/496655387> [accessed: 26 December 2024]
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