Geography of Greece. It is a peninsular and mountainous country located in Southern-Eastern Europe, in the Balkans peninsula. The country has the largest coastline in Europe (13,676km) due to its numerous islands. Greece has a total of 2,000 Greek islands but only 168 are inhabited.
Harry Hess created the theory of plate tectonics moving along the ocean's floor.
But it was not until the mechanic of seafloor spreading (first articulated by Robert S. Dietz, but Harry Hess is usually given credit (see below)) in the early 1960s that the theory actually became accepted by the scientific community.. - Wikipedia. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tecto...