Cunda Island

Description

Cunda Island, also called Alibey Island,(Turkish: Cunda Adası), is the largest of the Ayvalık Islands archipelago in Turkey, which was historically called the Hekatonisa archipelago. It is a small island in the northwestern Aegean Sea, off the coast of Ayvalık in Balıkesir Province, Turkey, with an area of 23 square kilometres. It is located 16 kilometres east of Lesbos, Greece. Cunda Island has a typical Aegean resort town. There are frequent bus and ferry services to Cunda Island from the town center of Ayvalık. Cunda Island is connected to Lale Island, and thence to the mainland, by a bridge and causeway built in the late 1960s. This is the first and currently the oldest surviving bridge in Turkey that connects lands separated by a strait.