Florence Island [SEP] continent
Florence Island
Florence Island is a small rocky island lying south of Derby Island near the northern extremity of Astrolabe Glacier Tongue, Antarctica. it was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition in 1951 and named after Florence, Italy.
See also.
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
the Tuscan comune, in the period of brightest splendour the mines around Villa di Chiesa gave shelter to 6500 workers.
In the years around 1326AD Pisa lost its Sardinian dominions to the crown of Aragon. The loss of the island, but first of all of its silver mines, was the commencing of the fall of the Tuscan city that was pressed on the continent by its rivals Lucca and Florence.
The Aragonese crown took upon the rights concerning the exploitation of the rich ore bodies of the silver ore in order to