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- proper noun Alternative name for the
Lipari Islands .
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The Aeolian Islands belongs to the "Sicilian domain", sensu Arrigoni (1983).
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Vulcano is one of two active volcanoes on the Aeolian Islands.
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The total area of the Aeolian Islands is 1,216 hectares (ha).
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Now we are circling Stromboli, from the Greek strongyle for round, a perfect volcanic cone rising from the sea, most famous of the Aeolian Islands.
Latter-Day Odyssey 1999
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(Aeolian Islands) and Ustica in the Tyrrhenian sea; the Egadi
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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If its crater, half extinguished for ages past, shot forth flakes of fire like that of Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands, the peak of Teneriffe, like a lighthouse, would serve to guide the mariner in
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Both storms and calms at sea are said to be dangerous, and they chanced on this occasion to come very near destruction, and miraculously escaped, for in a calm off the Aeolian Islands they were assailed by Liparian triremes, who took them for pirates.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Before that, I sailed around the Aeolian Islands for a week on Johnny Depp's yacht
Evening Standard - Home Hannah Nathanson 2011
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Heraclea in Pontus, and a similar event formerly occurred at Hiera, one of the Aeolian Islands.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Stromboli in the Aeolian Islands, the peak of Teneriffe, like a lighthouse, would serve to guide the mariner in a circuit of more than 260 leagues.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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