Illustration showing the possible shape of Santorini before and after the eruption of 1470BC. Santorini is an island in the Aegean Sea,about 100 km north of Crete. Positioned near a destructive plate margin,the island probably looked like the frame at left,with a central large volcano. This volcano suffered a catastrophic caldera collapse in 1470 BC,similar to but much larger than the explosion of Krakatau in Indonesia in 1883. All that is left today is a small ring of islands. It is possible that a Minoan city state on the island,destroyed in the eruption,was the basis for the legend of Atlantis | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Hardy, David |
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