Study area description

The island of Rhodes is located in the southeastern Aegean Sea, at the crossroads of the Eastern Mediterranean maritime routes. As the administrative and economic center of the Dodecanese island complex, Rhodes is one of Greece’s most significant islands in terms of tourism, maritime transport, energy connectivity and cultural heritage. The study area focuses on the southern marine zone of the island, characterized by an exposed coastline of sandy beaches and rocky shores, with water depths increasing rapidly offshore toward the Rhodes Basin.

The marine area hosts a range of ecologically important habitats, including Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows, rocky reef ecosystems and offshore pelagic environments that support marine mammals, seabirds and commercially important fish populations. At the same timeThus, the area represents a highly complex maritime space where fisheries, tourism activities, maritime transport corridors, environmentally sensitive ecosystems and underwater cultural heritage resources coexist and interact.

The study area focuses on the southern marine zone of the island, characterized by an exposed coastline of sandy beaches and rocky shores, with water depths increasing rapidly offshore toward the Rhodes Basin.It Southern Rhodes has recently emerged as one of the candidate areas under consideration for offshore wind energy development within Greece’s revised Special Spatial Planning Framework for Renewable Energy Sources (RES), currently under public consultation.

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