An uninhabited islet located in the prefecture of Evros, specifically a short distance east of Samothraki, and north of Imbro, is Zourafa or Ladoxera, where a serious incident occurred with a Coast Guard vessel, which collided with a Turkish fishing vessel in the northeast on Thursday morning.

As wikipedia points out, its total area is only 9 sq.m. and the total length of the coastline 32 meters (in older measurements 465 meters).

It belongs to the protected areas of the pan-European NATURA program since 2011, and is the most north-eastern end of the Thracian Sporades and the Greek maritime territory.

THE Giraffe it is of great geostrategic importance as it marks the extreme point of Greek maritime territory in the north-eastern Aegean, and at the same time it is the most north-eastern geographical point of the Thracian Sporades, which is a frequent point of tension between the Greek and Turkish coast guards at the water borders.

To its east there is its islet Boztepe Burnu (Turkish Boztepe Burnu, Greek name Akras Gremia) within Turkish territory, which is a grounding point for all ships that avoid entering Greek territory.

Turkey’s Naval General Staff started a policy in the 1990s of considering the islet as one of the 130 so-called gray zoneswhose ownership he disputes, even though the Greek thorough position is that these positions are completely non-existent, are not valid, and are confirmed by the supremacy in the region.

Other distances that have been measured are 6 nautical miles northeast from Cape Skepasto in Samothrace, and 14 nautical miles southwest from Cape Gremnia in Thrace.

The area it has been reported from time to time that it hosts oil deposits.