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Pelagie Islands
The Pelagie Islands ((イタリア語:Isole Pelagie), ), from the Greek meaning "open sea", are the three small islands of Lampedusa, Linosa, and Lampione, located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, south of Sicily. To the northwest lie the island of Pantelleria and the Strait of Sicily. Geographically part of the archipelago (Lampedusa and Lampione) belongs to the African continent; politically and administratively the islands fall within the Sicilian province of Agrigento and represent the southernmost part of Italy.
Despite pockets of agriculture, the islands are unnaturally barren due to wanton deforestation and the disappearance of the native olive groves, juniper and carob plantations. Fifty years ago much of the landscape was farmland bounded by dry stone walls but today, the local economy is based on fishing – sponge fishing and canning – supplemented by tourism in Lampedusa.
==Marine protected area ==
Of particular ecological concern in the islands is the protection of the Loggerhead sea turtle (''Caretta caretta'') which is endangered throughout the Mediterranean as a result of its nesting sites being taken over by tourism. In Italy the beaches of ' on Linosa and ' on Lampedusa are two of the last remaining sites where the turtle regularly lays its eggs, the others (larger) being in southern Calabria (close to Reggio Calabria). The ' nature reserve, covering all three islands, was instituted in 2002.
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