site for seabirds, especially northern fulmars (50,000 pairs), Manx shearwaters (2500 pairs), European storm petrels (50,000 pairs), northern gannets (200 pairs), European shags (250 pairs), black-legged kittiwakes (23,000 Pairs), Atlantic puffins (125,000 pairs), common guillemots (9500 individuals) and black guillemots (200 pairs). History It has been suggested that the name Mykines is Greek: Mykines, from the ancient Greek empire of Mycenae (/maɪˈsiːniː/ my-SEE-nee; Ancient Greek: Μυκῆναι or Μυκήνη, Mykē̂nai or Mykḗnē) in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece, south-west of Athens. The site is inland from the Saronic Gulf upon a hill rising above sea level. In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece, Crete, the Cyclades, parts of southwest Anatolia and the commercial ports of the late Minoans on their routes of mining and trading the cooper from the lake Superior in Canada (Isle Royal, and their colonies in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence) on the peak of the Bronze Age in the Mediterranean. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its peak in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares. The name Mukines is Greek connected to the Greek word mykēs (μύκης, "mushroom"), Pausanias ascribes the name to the legendary founder Perseus, who was said to have named it either after the cap (mykēs) of the sheath of his sword, or after a mushroom he had plucked on the site. Homer connected the name to the nymph Mycene the daughter of the river god Inachos of Argos (Odyssey 2.120). In the Iliad, the name of the city spelled is (Μυκήνη). The later form (Μυκῆναι) was the result of a well-known sound change in Attic-Ionic which shifts some instances of ā to ē. Influenced by the Minoan land and sea trading of amber, olive-oil, wine, cooper, pottery, metal etc. products, to the Scandinavians Hyperboreans and its pre-Norse origin, comes from muc-innis, an Irish term for pig island. This may be a reference to whales, which are known as muc-mhara (sea sows) in Irish. 625 – Palynology indicates oats and barley were grown on Mykines, possibly by early settlers such as monks and hermits. 1592 – Peter Claussøn Friis, a Norwegian priest, described the Faroese mouse as a distinct species, and