The outer flanks of the Santorini caldera, mantled by deposits of the 3,500-year-old Minoan eruption, provide a setting for croplands and island villages. This view looks NW from Mt. Profitis Ilias, a limestone peak forming the high point of the island of Thera, shows the northern half of the 7.5 x 11 km caldera. The northern rim drops below sea level, leaving a channel between the tip of Thera and the island of Therasia to the left.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1994 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: caldera

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