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Lipari Islands

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Lipari Islands

Volcanic group of seven islands off northeastern Sicily, including Lipari (on which is the capital of the same name), Stromboli (active volcano 926 m/3,038 ft high), and Vulcano (also with an active volcano); area 114 sq km/44 sq mi. In Greek mythology, the god Aeolus kept the winds imprisoned in a cave on the Lipari Islands.
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Some time later en route from Malta to Naples, at early morning the captain broadcast telling us that a Comet airliner had crashed near Stromboli in the Lipari Islands.
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In the same era Antoine de la Sale, author of Petit Jehan de Saintre, climbed to the crater of a volcano in the Lipari Islands in 1407 and recorded his impressions.
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