The locals call this island Tsirigoto, (diminutive of Tsirigo). Located in the straits between Kythira and Crete, it has an area of 20 square kilometers. Its 44 permanent residents spend their summers in the tourist trade. This place has always had strategic importance, and for this reason the excavations carried out here have consistently revealed ancient as well as Byzantine-era finds. Investigations into the famous Antikythira shipwreck have turned up the bronze statue, the Ephebe of Antikythira, now on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens; as well as the fascinating Antikythira Mechanism, thought to be the first computational tool of mankind!