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The complex of the eight Aeolian Islands, covering an area of 1, 600 square kilometres, originated from a great plain at the bottom of the Tyrrhenian sea.

Emissions of lava from depths of up to 3, 600 metres resulted in the formation of the Eolian Islands, together with Ustica and a series of submarine volcanoes named Magnani, Vavilov, Marsili and Palinuro, as well as two that are unnamed.