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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A group of volcanic islands of Italy off the northeast coast of Sicily in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The islands have been inhabited since the Neolithic Period.
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- proper noun A group of
islands ofItaly off the north coast ofSicily .
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The Aeolian Islands, also known as the Lipari Islands and Isole Eolie is a volcanic archipelago located just off the western Coast of Calabria, in the Tyrrhenian Sea. renown for excellent weather and a series of active volcanoes, the Aeolian Islands have a strong tourism market and can be visited on daily cruise Ferries which leave Tropea and Zambrone Marinas most days during the summer months.
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The country includes the large Mediterranean islands of Sicily and Sardinia and several small islands, notably Elba, Capri, Ischia, and the Lipari Islands.
Italy The World Factbook 2008
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I think it likely that the account you mention in the French papers, of a fatal quarrel among some foreign sailors in one of the Lipari Islands, and of the death of their captain, among others, may really have been a quarrel among the scoundrels who robbed Mr. Armadale and scuttled his yacht.
Armadale 2003
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Many political opponents of the regime were arrested and transported to the Lipari Islands.
1925 2001
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Messina, probably, I shall be found at; but you can enquire, at the Lipari Islands, if we are at Palermo.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison
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The world's principal source for pumice is the Lipari Islands, Italy.
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He continued to make scientific journeys and special studies of Vesuvius and the volcanoes of Sicily and of the Lipari Islands.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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Lipari Islands past; and the blue outline of Sardinia and Corsica began to keep pace with them as they neared the narrow straits of Bonifacio between them.
The Centaur Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Corsica and Sardinia, Lipari Islands, and Stromboli, or of the Straits of Messina and Etna -- have barely mentioned Crete!
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In the Lipari Islands we saw lights ashore, and down the Straits of Messina; and Stromboli we discovered easily enough by the glow of hot red up in the sky, and a sloping line of red that went glittering downwards.
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