Tag Archives: Limnos

Greece’s Environment Ministry said on Friday that initial results of a marine mucilage or “sea snot” observed around the northern Aegean island of Limnos are encouraging. “There is no cause for concern for swimmers while in recent days [the mucilage] has disappeared from the shores of the island,” experts tasked …

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Τhe “sea snot” from the sea of Marmara has moved into the Aegean Sea and started appearing around the Greek islands of Limnos and Agios Eftratios, Greek media report on Thursday. The Municipality of Limnos has reportedly taken samples from the slimy masses and sent them to special laboratories awaiting …

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Police on the island of Limnos has apparently taken its role to monitor that citizens keep the lockdown measures much to seriously and thus to an extend that is beyond any logic. They fined an older man for not wearing sports gear and shoes during exercise. Last month, they also …

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Daily Kathimerini published on Wednesday a picture revealed the damage sustained to the right side of the stern of the Turkish frigate “Kemal Reis” during the collision with Greek frigate “Limnos” on August 12. The captain of the Kemal Reis had sought to obstruct the Limnos, prompting the Greek ship …

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The petrified trunk of a giant tree has been unearthed on the island of Lemnos in the eastern Aegean Sea. The log is believed to belong to a sequoia and is estimated to be 20 million year old an age similar to the Petrified Forest of Lesvos. The fossilized trunk …

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Passenger ferry “Blue Star Mykonos” was placed in quarantine in the port of the island of Limnos in the early hours of Thursday,  after a crew member fell ill with coronavirus symptoms. According to media, the captain of the ferry reported to health authorities that one of his crew was …

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Storms have flooded areas in Halkidiki, Kavala and the island of Thassos in northern Greece. At least two municipalities have been declared in “state of emergency. A thunderbolt opened a hole in a house on the island of Limnos house. Limnos A thunderbolt stroke a home on the island of …

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Police on the island of Limnos fined an animal lover with the incredible amount of 6,000 euros for feeding stray cats. The woman did what thousands of people do in Greece. However, the police displayed nothing else than ignorance of the Greek Law regarding stray and pet animals. The woman …

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Military equipment has been stolen from the Naval Technical Facility on the island of Leros in the eastern Aegean sea. The theft has been discovered during a search in the facility’s inventory. The incident is considered as “serious”, teams from the counter-terror department of police to investigate the issue. A …

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The NATO accepted the Turkish demand to exempt the island of Lemnos from an joint multinational exercise with the participation of member states of the North Atlantic alliance. This decision left Greece with no other choice than to withdraw from the NATO exercise on electronic warfare. Last year, the island …

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A diplomatic ‘war’ broke out between Greece and Turkey, after Ankara issued a NOTAM to “reserve” a large part of the Greek airspace over the Aegean Sea for military exercises and use international air space, Greek FIR and the south part of the island of Limnos as “Firing Exercise Areas” …

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A powerful earthquake hit the Northern Aegean Sea area in Greece on Saturday at 12:27 noon local time. Several geo-dynamic institutes give different magnitudes from 5.7 R up to 7.2 R. According to Geo-dynamic Institute of Athens University, the earthquake measured 6.5 R and had a depth of 6 km. …

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A powerful earthquake occurred on Tuesday at 4:16 pm with the epicentre located in the sea, 44 km south-east off the island of Limnos in the Aegean Sea. Seismologic institutes gave the magnitude as 5.8 on the Richter scale. The earthquake occurred in a depth of 11 km.     …

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