Aegean Sea is a blue ocean in the eastern part of the Greek Peninsula, and it reaches Crete in the south, belonging to the Mediterranean Sea. Aegean Sea is the only water area leading to the Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean by countries along the Black Sea, and it has an important shipping and strategic position. Aegean Sea has a Mediterranean climate, with mild and rainy winter, hot and dry summer, strong evaporation and prevailing north wind.
The sea area is 6 10 km long from north to south and 300 km wide from east to west. The coastline is very tortuous, with numerous harbors and scattered islands, so the Aegean Sea is also called "multi-island sea". The largest island in the sea is Crete, with an area of about 8,300 square kilometers? Long and narrow from east to west, it is the barrier of the southern Aegean Sea.
Island information:
The coastline of the Aegean Sea is very tortuous, with many harbors and about 2,500 islands. The islands in the Aegean Sea can be divided into seven islands: Thrace Sea Islands, East Aegean Islands, spola Islands in the north, cyclades, Sal Ronicke Islands (also known as Argo-Sal Ronicke Islands), Dodd kanis Islands and Crete Island.
Many islands or island chains in the Aegean Sea are actually extensions of mountains on land. One island chain extends to Shio Island, another extends to Samos Island via Evio Island, and the other extends from Peloponnesus Peninsula to Rhode Island via Crete Island, separating the Aegean Sea from the Mediterranean Sea. Many islands have good ports, but in ancient times, sailing in the Aegean Sea was not very safe.