Scoglio d'Africa

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Coordinates: 42°21′24″N 10°03′54″E / 42.35667°N 10.06500°E / 42.35667; 10.06500

Scoglio d'Africa
Geography
Location Tyrrhenian Sea
Archipelago Tuscan Archipelago
Country
Italy
Region Tuscany
Province Livorno
Demographics
Population unhabited

The Scoglio d'Africa [1] (or Scoglio d'Affrica) also named Formica di Monte Cristo ("Monte Cristo's Ant"), is a small islet belonging to the Tuscan Archipelago located in open sea between Tyrrhenian Sea and Corsica Channel. It is located west of the Island of Montecristo, south of Pianosa Island and east of Corsica. Administratively it belongs to the municipality of Portoferraio. It is also part of the Tuscan Archipelago National Park.

Regarding its size and its shape, it can be considered to all effects an emergent rock in a stretch of shallow sea. Geologically the islet belongs to a submarine ridge whose north emergences originate also the Islands of Pianosa and Capraia. [2]

On its platform is built a lighthouse.

Notes

  1. ↑ "official map". Istituto Idrografico della marina. Retrieved 29 February 2012. 
  2. ↑ "Lineamenti geologici e geomorfologici" (in Italian). Retrieved 29 February 2012. 
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