According to the article of Doğan News Agency, the surface research carried out in Bademli village proved that one of the peninsulas in the area was an island in ancient times and was later connected to the mainland by an isthmus formed through alluvial deposits.
The discovery was the outcome of a larger research examining the harbours of Karadağ Peninsula carried out by geoarchaeologists from German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and University of Cologne along with archaeologists, historians, geographers, land surveyors and geophysicists from universities in Izmir, Manisa, Karlsruhe, Munich, Kiel, Rostock and Southampton.
The study also located the ancient city of Kane through architectural findings and ceramics, reported Professor Felix Pirson.
"However it was a matter of debate that the islands in the region were the Arginusae Islands. Through borehole samples, it was understood that ancient Kane was located over an island," Pirson said.
Güler Ateş, an assistant professor from Celal Bayar University, said that the research over the connection of harbours located in the peninsula resulted in locating the third lost island and the characteristics of Kane's harbours.
"It is understood that this place serves as intermediary stop among important routes between Lesbos and Adramytteion in the north and Pergamon's main harbour of Elaia in the south," Ateş said.
The famous naval Battle of Arginusae was fought between Athens and Sparta in 406 BC and it was one of the last major battles of the Peloponnessian War. Despite the Athenian victory, six out of eight commanders of the Athenian fleet were executed as they failed to rescue their wounded sailors or bury the dead.
Kane is also known as the harbour chosen by the Romans during the war against Antiochus III in 191-190 B.C.
The remaining two islands are currently known as Garip Islands.
Source: Daily Sabah [November 12, 2015]