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The Geographical Context of the Maltese Islands

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Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands

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This chapter provides the background to the broad geomorphological properties of the Maltese Islands through a geographical lens. Principally it aims to provide a large-scale view of the integration of the landscape to the landform as applied to a small archipelago. The main themes identified in this endeavour are location, the broader Mediterranean environment, climate, cohesion of the island mass and the human element that occupies it.

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    A skerry (plur. skerries) is a low, rugged rocky reef or scatter of reefs, situated off a hard rocky coast. They are generally intertidal but may sometimes extend above high tide level (Goudie 2014).

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq, Msida, MSD, 2080, Malta

    John A. Schembri

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  1. Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Ritienne Gauci

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    John A. Schembri

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Schembri, J.A. (2019). The Geographical Context of the Maltese Islands. In: Gauci, R., Schembri, J. (eds) Landscapes and Landforms of the Maltese Islands. World Geomorphological Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15456-1_2

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