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Plane Island
Plane Island. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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Plane Island (French: Île Plane; Latin: Phalans Insula) also known as Piana or Plana Island and—in Tunisian Arabic—as Jaziret el-Monbasta (Standard Arabic: الجزيرة المنبسطة, al-Jazira al-Munbasita), is a flat, rocky island in the Mediterranean Sea roughly 3.75 kilometers (2.3 mi) off Cape Farina, Tunisia. It has a lighthouse.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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