Which island is the southernmost point of Italy?

Lampedusa is the largest island of the Italian Pelagie Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The 'comune di Lampedusa e Linosa' is part of the Sicilian province of Agrigento which also includes the smaller islands of Linosa and Lampione. It is the southernmost part of Italy and Italy's southernmost island. Tunisia, which is about 113 kilometres (70 miles) away, is the closest landfall to the islands. Sicily is 205 kilometres (127 miles) to the north, and Sardinia is even further away to the northwest. The island of Gozo is not part of Italy, but part of Malta, about 176 kilometres (109 miles) to the east.

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Special Patrol Group

Great question and totally correct ... well done.

weathernco

Lampedusa is closer to Tunisia than Italy. It is a remnant of Italy's colonialism period just prior to World War I

Karin Johansson

Kevin Dale Streets, no they are not wrong

billyboy915

Kevin Dale Streets, Let me get this straight; because you never heard of it, it cannot possibly be true. Sounds perfectly logical... said no one ever! Why not consult an atlas or check it out online before protesting? You might actually learn something, or is the cognitive dissonance too difficult to overcome?

billyboy915

Marquita Lynelle Sozio, Let me get this straight; because you never heard of it, it cannot possibly be true. Sounds perfectly logical... said no one ever! Why not consult an atlas or check it out online before protesting? You might actually learn something, or is the cognitive dissonance too difficult to overcome?

Karin Johansson

Kevin Dale Streets, do you only thimk there are a few islands in italy?

Sergey Boev

Lampedusa island is more to the south than Malta and is closer to Africa than to Europe. But it is Italy.

billyboy915

Shoy Verona Sinclair, You need to do some research before you protest a correct answer. Arguing without facts only serves to make you look foolish.

ArlenRose Frazier

I thought of it because it is in the news often lately--migrants being rescued/shipwrecked/washed ashore, often drowning trying to flee Syria.

Cooch

Lampedusa is the correct answer. Look it up!!

deborahpmercer

I fell into the Sicily trap (so to speak!) but it was a perfectly fair and good question.

Shane Butcher

My geography is a wee bit rusty.

Scott Hastings

Great question!!

zorah howard

weathernco, Thank you for the information

zorah howard

Never heard of Lampedusa. Oh well. .

Suraya Choudhury

Did not know !

Page Wharangi Cook

Not going to well

Ray Anderson

The joy of quizzes is learning even more irrelevant trivia that is only any use for answering quiz questions :-) . Getting one wrong is a learning experience, not a failure!