Italy’s Islands

• Italy has numerous Islands of which two have active volcanoes, Stromboli and Sicily with Mount Etna.

Adriatic Sea:

• Venetian Lagoon:
  • Venice, Sant’Erasmo, Burano, Giudecca, Lido, Pellestrina, Murano, Isola di San Michele, Torcello
• Grado Lagoon:
  • Grado, Barbana Island, Porto Buso, San Pietro d’Orio
• Tremiti Islands:
  • An Archipelago opposite the Gargano Peninsular, in Puglia.) Caprara, San Domino, San Nicola, Cretaccio, Pianosa.
  • Augustus exiled his grandaughter Julia the Younger to one of these islands called Trimerus.

Barbana (near Trieste)

Tyrrhenian Sea:

• Pontine Islands:
  • Gavi, Palmarola, Pomza, Santo Stefano, Ventotene, Zannone
• Flegrean Islands:
  • Capri, Ischia, Nisida, Vivara, Procida
• Ustica
• Tuscan Archipelago:
  • (between the Tyrrhenian and Ligurian Seas) Capraia, Elba, Giannutri, Giglio, Gorgona, Montecristo, Pianosa, Formiche di Grosseto, Scoglio d’Africa

Sardinia

• Sant’Antioco, Tavolara, San Pietro, Asinara, Molara
• Maddalena Archipelago:
  • (between Corsica and Sardinia) Budelli, Caprera, La Maddalena, Santa Maria, Santo Stefano, Spargi, Razzoli

Sicily

• Aegadian Islands:
  • Favignana, Lavanzo, Marettimo
• Pelagian Islands:
  • Lampedusa, Lampione, Linosa; Pantelleria
• Aeolian Islands:
  • Alicudi, Filicudi, Lipari, Panarea, Salina, Stromboli, Vulcano
• Ferdinandea

Malta

• Gozo, Comino

Ligurian Sea:

• Palmaria, Tino, Tinetto
• Sant’Andrea (Elba)
• Gallinara
• Bergeggi

Gulf of Taranto:

• Cheradi Islands:
  • San Pietro, San Paulo

Stromboli