It's 205 Km far from the Sicilian coast and is located 113 Km far from Tunisia. Even if it's part of Italian country, Lampedusa is, considering the geological conformation, related to African continent, which platform is attached to.
The island, togheter with Lampione, was originated from the Africa emersion, as environmental characteristics of both the two suggest. It's 20 square Km wide, extending from east to west for a little more than 9 Km and its maximum width is 3 Km. The only bult-up ares is Lampedusa placed in a South-Eastern coast cove.

The coast from Capo Grecale until Cala Galera can be accessed easily.
Going along the coast clockwise until Capo Levante the first cove you can meet is Cala Calandra, broken by the majestity of a deep cave.

Then there is Cala Creta, that offers to the boats a safe place from the wind coming from west. Here there is not a beach, but a handy platform good for the suntan.

Cala Pisana, natural alternative to Lampedusa harbour, whose functionality is improved by a little landing, and Cala Uccello, Punta Parrino and Punta Sottile, that is just only a metre over the sea level, are the successive coves.

Going towards south, you can find Cala Francese beach, the Grottaccia, that, modeled by sea abrasion, is a mandatory stop for the boats that are looking for some shade.

Cala Maluk, Cala Spugne, and the Harbour where until the 1800 lumber traffics were done.

The most beautiful beaches are the ones in Cala Guitgia, Cala Croce and Cala Madonna, that offer a shelter fromTramontana, Grecale and Levante winds.

A lot of living forms can be found in Lampedusa depth, also the harbour is full of various kinds of fish.

For underwater photographers hapiness, big saraghi (Diplodus sargus) and some stone basses (Sarranus gigas) can be found along the southern coast.

In the Rabbits island open sea a group of big rocks it's the ideal environment for stone basses and corvine (Sciaena umbra). On the bottom made by sand and posidonie, that goes towards Capo Ponente it's easy to find big jew's harps (Dasyatis centroura) stationary on flying.

The other face of Lampedusa starts from Capo Ponente: from here on the bottom is really various, and it's accompanied both by a group of isolated cliffs, located near the shore, and by shallows populated by big stone basses, like the one located to the North of: from the 30 to the 65/70 m going on for 1 Km towards the open sea, other than cernie you can find corvine, lobsters (Palinurus vulgaris) and murene (Muraena helena).

Lampedusa island differs from other places that can be found in the same latitude, because it has a moderate climate. It's made moderate from the winds and from the white rock that make the sun rays less aggressive.

Often it happens that the energic wind activity from the fourth face (North-West) make it possible that the clouds let the place to the sun.