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Gavdos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much larger neighbor, Crete.

Described by Homer as the place where Odysseus shipwrecked on his way back from Troy, Gavdos is a remote island located 45 km (28 miles) from the southern coast of Crete. Closer to Africa than to Athens. It was on Gavdos...

The Greek coast guard located south of the island of Gavdos a sailboat with refugees and migrants which they believe is the one that made an emergency call for assistance at the European emergency number 112 earlier on Saturday. The...

Residents of Gavdos, the southernmost Greek island, make it clear that they are not going to let their island succumb to narco-tourism. The municipality and local residents have been alarmed by the rise in drug use and drug-related offenses in...

An earthquake registering 4.3 on the Richter scale took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The quake took place at 2:19 a.m. with its epicenter located 71 kilometers west of the island of Gavdos and had a focal depth...

The number of undocumented migrants located on Thursday on various parts of the small island of Gavdos, south of Crete, Greece , is 140, according to police from Chania on the nearby island of Crete. According to sources, the migrants...

The residents of the island of Gavdos, the southernmost island of Greece, decided to abstain from the European Parliament elections on May 25. They complain about the inertia and indifference of the European Union towards the plans for destruction of the...

Six-year-old Joanna is the only pupil at the elementary school in Gavdos, an island south of Crete with a population of 152. She plays alone during breaks and has no classmates to interact with in class. However, according to the...

As unlikely as it may seem, a dispute over salvage rights between Turkish and Greek captains was the trigger for a series of events which escalated into a major international incident called the Imia Crisis. The quickly-spiraling crisis saw the...

Greece has too many nude beaches to count. This list of some of the best Greek nude beaches can be used to narrow down such a plethora of options!

Vaccination campaigns have begun on Greek islands with up to 10,000 inhabitants, according to an announcement on Thursday.

The Greek defense ministry has established for the first time a military outpost on the island of Gavdos, the southernmost point of Greece, and is planning to do the same at the island of Othonoi, the country's westernmost point. The...

A Greek Air Force pilot, flying with his F-16 on Wednesday morning, sent a message to all Greeks for the celebration of the 28th of October. "Greeks, from Orestiada to Gavdos and from Othonoi to Kastellorizo, remember that the most...

The Greek Coast Guard intervened in three separate incidents involving migrants and refugees in the Aegean Sea in the early hours of Tuesday, rescuing a total of 116 individuals. In the first case, a Coast Guard patrol vessel located a...

Greek Coast Guard authorities discovered large quantities of drugs in a cave on the islet of Piperi, near the island of Alonnisos, in the Northern Sporades archipelago on Monday. According to their announcement, the Coast Guard sized a total of...