Kythira

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Ky·thi·ra

(kē′thē-rä′)
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The next day, the 16th of February, we left the basin which, between Rhodes and Alexandria, is reckoned about 1,500 fathoms in depth, and the Nautilus, passing some distance from Cerigo, quitted the Grecian Archipelago after having doubled Cape Matapan.
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(9.) Quesnel-Vallee A, Renahy E, Jenkins T, Cerigo H.
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However, Baudelaire, in his two poems "A Voyage to Cythera" and "Cerigo" describes it as a depressingly desolate island representing shattered dreams, as does Gerard de Nerval in his book, Voyage en Orient.
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His mother, Rosa Antonia Cassimati, was a native of the small island of Cerigo, the ancient Cythera, the most southern of the Ionian Islands and the most desolate and sea-dominated of those islands.
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