name » Limni Korission (phonetic) or λίμνη Κορισσίων (Greek), Korisson, Korrison, Korrision Korissa, Karissa (variation)

location » Ionian Sea, Corfu Island, Meliteieis and Korissia (municipal units), Corfu (municipality and peripheral unit), Greece

features » type: salty-water lagoon, coastal subsaline wetland; origin: artificial, formation: due to flooding of the pre-existing marshlands made by the Venetians in order to create salt pans; shape: prolonged with a larger part (southeast) and a narrower part (northwest), structure: enclosed with water exchange with the Ionian Sea at the mouth (southwest), borders: sea [...]

Corfu Island, or locally known as Kerkira, Kerkyra is the northwesternmost point of Greece in the Ionian Sea at the southern boundary with the Adriatic. The north coastal area is more open to massive tourism with most of the famous resorts developed there while the South, though popular with some of the hot targets for [...]