Six migrants have died and 40 are missing after a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa late on March 18, 2025.
About Lampedusa Island
- Lampedusa Island is the largest of the Isole Pelagie (Pelagie Islands), an island group that includes Linosa and Lampione islets.
- Administratively Lampedusa is part of the autonomous region of Sicily in Italy. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia.
- The Lopadusa of the Greek geographer Strabo and the Lipadosa of the poet Ludovico Ariosto’s “Orlando furioso,” the island has remains of prehistoric hut foundations, Punic tombs, and Roman buildings.
- It’s also “the door to Europe” for migrantsheaded north from nearby Africa.
