page_title: Zourafa
section_title: Name
hierarchical_section_title: Zourafa / Name
caption_attribution_description: English: This folio from Walters manuscript W.658 contains a map of the sea of Marmara and the islands of the eastern Aegean Sea from Semendrek (Samothraki) as far as Chios (Sakiz, Saqiz).
context_page_description: Zourafa, also called Ladoxera, is a Greek rocky islet in the northeastern Aegean, six nautical miles east of Samothrace. It is part of the Thracian Sporades archipelago and is the northeastern-most Greek possession in the Aegean. Zourafa has an area of nine square metres and a 32-metre long coastline. A lighthouse operates on Zourafa.
context_section_description: The etymology of Zourafa is uncertain. Zourafa is inscribed "Zürafa kaya" on the 1521 Piri Reis map, meaning "giraffe rock" in Turkish. Nikolaos Fardys, a Samothracian scholar, published a monograph on Zourafa in 1897, referring to the islet as "[τα] Ζγόραφα" (Zgorafa). Its alternate name, Ladoxera "oil reef", was given to it by sailors who would often spot oil slicks around Zourafa.
caption: Folio from the 1521 Piri Reis map; Samothrace, a nearby island, is coloured red on the top middle left.
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