Island of Lipari

Province: Messina

Area: 37.6sq.km/14.5sq.mi

Altitude: 602m/1975ft.

Population: 11,000

Communications

Ship connections with Milazzo and Naples; hydrofoil service to Milazzo, in summer also to Naples, Reggio di Calabria and Palermo.

Lípari, the Lipara of ancient times, is the largest and most heavily populated of the Aeolian Islands. Of volcanic origins, like all the islands of this archipelago, it rises at Monte Chirica to 602m/1,975ft, to the south of that at Monte Sant'Angelo to 594m/1,949ft. Monte Pelato in the northeast reaches 476m/1,562ft, Monte Guardia in the south 369m/1,211ft.

The west coast descends steeply; in the east and north there are narrow, flat coastal strips