Nissaki Wall

The wall sits on the sheltered northeast coast of Corfu, tucked inside the narrow Corfu Channel with Mt Pantokrator rising immediately behind to the N-NW-W and the bulk of Corfu blocking the dominant W-SW Ionian swell — so everything from SW round through W to N is fully land-shadowed. The exposed window faces down the channel: the NW-SE channel axis gives the SE-SSE sector the longest fetch (10km+ toward the widening southern basin and the Ionian mouth), making it the most exposed. Straight across the channel to the E and ENE the Albanian mainland sits close — only ~4km due E at the narrowest neck, ~6km ENE — so cross-channel fetch there is limited, not fully open. In summer the site is usually calm; a sustained SE Scirocco blowing up the channel is what most often builds surface waves here, with a strong NW Maestro raising secondary down-channel chop that is largely blocked by the headlands.