According to comic book lore, the superhero Wonder Woman hails from the island of Themyscira, also known as Paradise Island, home to female warriors known as the Amazons. NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible look at the region where an island of the same name is located in the Black Sea.
Themyscira, also spelled Themiscyra, was an ancient Greek town on the Themiscyra plain located near the mouth of the modern Terme River, which is now part of modern day Turkey. The Terme River is located in central and northern Turkey and empties into the Black Sea. The civilization of ancient Greece extended from the 12th to 9th centuries B.C. to the end of antiquity in 600 A.D.
In May 2017, this visible image of Greece (left) and Turkey (right) was taken from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer instrument aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The Black Sea is located to the north of Turkey.
Caption: Rob Gutro, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.Photo Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response