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Chalcidice Peninsula, Northern Greece (Macedonia): Chalcidice peninsula itself has three promontories known as (left to right), Kassandra, Sithonia and Aktí, which appear prominently from low earth orbit. The 30-mile long eastern promontory of Aktí (right) is renowned in Greece as a center of twenty Orthodox Christian monasteries, classed under the constitution as semiautonomous communities. The monasteries lie along the coast at the foot of famous Mt. Athos (also known as the Holy Mountain) which appears as the devegetated high point near the tip of the promontory. In his "massive invasion" of Greece in 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes I excavated a canal at the narrow (1.5 mi. wide) base of the Aktí "finger" to avoid leading his fleet around the dangerous seas on the tip of the finger. The now-filled remains of the canal can be seen in this view.

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