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Karpathos is the second largest of the Dodecanese islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea.

Tremors were felt across several of the Dodecanese islands, the National Observatory of Athens says.

Greece, through its ownership of the 12 scattered Greek islands in the Dodecanese east of Cyprus, can make a substantive claim to exploration rights.

Mr. Baker was 4 when his father, conscripted into the military, was among the casualties in the Allies’ disastrous World War II campaign to capture the strategic Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea.

Despite being the second largest of the Dodecanese – smaller than Rhodes and bigger than Kos – Karpathos has been inexplicably neglected by tourists.