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Photo: Nea Kameni day-trippers
Photo: Nea Kameni day-trippers
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Photo: Thera church overlooking Nea Kameni
Photo: Drying fish attracts curious cat
Photo: Fishers tending to their nets
Photo: Swimming pool above Santorini flooded caldera
Photo: People watching the Fira sunset
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Day-trippers explore the raw lava of Nea Kameni. Eruptions began building this island in A.D. 1570 long after ash from the Bronze Age explosion entombed a wealthy city at Akrotiri, on what is now the island Thera.

—From "Santorini: Greece's Sensuous Daughter of Cataclysm," September/October 1997, National Geographic Traveler.
Photograph by Michael Melford

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