Megisti, Greece
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now has only some 200 inhabitants, mostly elderly (some of them sponge divers), compared with the population of 15,000 it is said to have had about 1900. There has been a rapid decline in population since then through emigration, particularly to Australia.

Archeological evidence has shown that the island was already densely populated in the Neolithic period. Its subsequent destinies were closely linked with Rhodes.

An airfield opened in 1986. Regular flights and boat sailings once or twice weekly from and to Rhodes; boats to and from Kásos, Khalkí and Tílos. There is no motor traffic on the island.