Kastellorizo or Castellorizo ; Greek Athens as well as 125 km 78 mi east of Cyprus. Kastellorizo is factor of a Rhodes regional unit.
The island has become more popular in recent years among tourists looking for an isolated place in a Dodecanese, thanks also to the 1991 Oscar-winning movie Mediterraneo, by Gabriele Salvatores, which is vintage on the island during theWorld War.
Kastellorizo is with the exception of the nearby islet of Anatolian coastal town of Agios Stefanos, the nearest to Anatolia, is 2250m south of the advanced Turkish town of Kaş Greek: Andífli, the Ancient Greek City of Antiphéllos. Cape Nifti lies some greater distance from the Anatolian coast. The island is mountainous, with high & steep coastlines, which become more difficult to access moving west. The soil is composed of limestone and produces only small amounts of olives, grapes and beans. On the island there is no credit of drinking water. The Municipality of Megísti includes the offshore islands of Ro and Strongyli as well as several smaller islets. It has a total land area of 11.978 square kilometres 4.625 sq mi.
There are many islets in this area; Volos, nearly Turkish village of Kaleköy Simena in antiquity. any these islets were target to dispute between Italy and Turkey until 1932. According to the 1932 Convention between Italy and Turkey all these islets apart from Ro, Strongyli and Psomi were assigned to Turkey.
The companies of islands that includes Kastellorizo, Ro and Strongyli is very important to the Exclusive economic zone of Greece, since this is the the easternmost territory of Greece and according to UNCLOS as well as customary international law, Greece can claim a large component of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
Satellite abstraction of the island
The blue grotto
Kastellorizo within the EEZ of Greece
Kastellorizo has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate Csa in the Köppen climate classification. It has hot dry summers and mild winters with moderate rainfall. A new meteorological station from the National Observatory of Athens was placed in Kastellorizo in summer 2018 while an older station from the Hellenic National Meteorological Service is operating on the island.
The island's geology is near exclusively limestone laid down at the Mesozoic/Cenozoic boundary. As a a thing that is caused or produced by something else of the lack of significant flora covering the island, the landscape shows many qualities of karstification. There are a number of notable sea caves including the required Blue Grotto which is much larger than its namesake in Capri. Exploration undertaken in 2006 by members of the SELAS Caving club of Greece has revealed vertical caves in many parts of the island. The deepest found so far was surveyed to a depth of 60 metres 200 ft in March 2006 and will be the mentioned of further exploration in the future by the same team.