Cunda Island

Cunda Island
Island
A view from Cunda (Alibey Island)
A view from Cunda (Alibey Island)
Cunda Island is located in Turkey
Cunda Island
Cunda Island
Location in Turkey
Coordinates: 39°21′38″N 26°38′34″E / 39.36056°N 26.64278°E / 39.36056; 26.64278
Country Turkey
ProvinceBalikesir
Area
 • Total26.8 km2 (10.3 sq mi)
Population
 • Total3,321
Time zoneUTC+3 (TRT)
Cunda Island viewed from the sea.
Cunda Island, Ayvalık, Balıkesir Province, Turkey.
White washed windmills on Cunda Island
Interior of large former Greek Orthodox cathedral

Cunda Island, also called Alibey Island, (Turkish: Cunda Adası, Alibey Adası), Greek Moschonisi (Greek: Μοσχονήσι or Μοσχόνησος), is the largest of the Ayvalık Islands archipelago in Turkey, which was historically called the Εκατόνησα (Hekatonisa) or Μοσχονήσια (Moschonisia) archipelago in Greek. It lies in the Edremit Gulf on the Turkey's northwestern coast, off the coast of Ayvalık in Balıkesir Province, Turkey, with an area of 26.8 square kilometres (10 sq mi).[1] It is located 16 kilometres (10 miles) east of Lesbos, Greece.

  1. ^ "Turkey's Statistical Yearbook 2013" (PDF) (in Turkish and English). Turkish Statistical Institute. 2014. p. 7.