Rubber dinghies continue to arrive in Lesbos even as Macedonia tightens its border controls. Migrants and locals alike ponder whether the rugged agricultural island may turn into a holding camp for stranded people. The mayor's office says the island's fate is in the hands of smugglers in Turkey. RFE/RL photographer Amos Chapple is on Lesbos and sent in these images. (Read more here.)
Confusion Reigns On Lesbos As Greece Copes With Migrant Bottleneck
![Syrian refugee Daoud Daoud, 20 (center), raises his gloved hands in triumph as his boat arrives on the beach at Lesbos, Greece.](https://gdb.rferl.org/99928484-1be0-4605-804e-28a1985b94da_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Syrian refugee Daoud Daoud, 20 (center), raises his gloved hands in triumph as his boat arrives on the beach at Lesbos, Greece.
![Syrian refugee Daoud Daoud, 20, after arriving safely on Lesbos. "We wanted to leave before NATO would close the path," the 20-year-old told RFE/RL once he was ashore on February 28. "We would rather cross in the summer, but we crossed in winter because NATO has decided to close the way."](https://gdb.rferl.org/a94e8027-433f-4f32-a16a-dadf5e66fdb9_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Syrian refugee Daoud Daoud, 20, after arriving safely on Lesbos. "We wanted to leave before NATO would close the path," the 20-year-old told RFE/RL once he was ashore on February 28. "We would rather cross in the summer, but we crossed in winter because NATO has decided to close the way."
![Refugees arriving on Greek island Lesbos on February 26.](https://gdb.rferl.org/760a9752-c587-41ce-9f00-2893e81ff1fc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Refugees arriving on Greek island Lesbos on February 26.
![An unidentified migrant woman, who is pregnant, is treated by medical personnel after arriving on the Greek island Lesbos on February 26.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c22f71b5-2e04-4d04-ad4b-5b24150961bb_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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An unidentified migrant woman, who is pregnant, is treated by medical personnel after arriving on the Greek island Lesbos on February 26.
![Pakistani men sit outside their tent in an improvised refugee camp near Moria village, Lesbos.](https://gdb.rferl.org/cadfe36d-0497-4468-8018-ab792a271866_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Pakistani men sit outside their tent in an improvised refugee camp near Moria village, Lesbos.
![Two Afghan men walk through olive trees on the edge of an improvised refugee camp near Moria Village, Lesbos.](https://gdb.rferl.org/1c0b4ded-239a-4798-bc70-159f66f1588d_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Two Afghan men walk through olive trees on the edge of an improvised refugee camp near Moria Village, Lesbos.
![Nazmi Jolak, a Syrian Kurdish farmer, plays his saz after landing on the coast of Lesbos as the refugee boat he arrived on is dismantled behind him. The 52-year-old refugee from Aleppo carried the instrument,wrapped in plastic, across the sea. He is now hoping to join his son in Dortmund, Germany.](https://gdb.rferl.org/97e66f1a-e16f-41df-9f23-cb95364ba0cf_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Nazmi Jolak, a Syrian Kurdish farmer, plays his saz after landing on the coast of Lesbos as the refugee boat he arrived on is dismantled behind him. The 52-year-old refugee from Aleppo carried the instrument,wrapped in plastic, across the sea. He is now hoping to join his son in Dortmund, Germany.
![Lesbos's Statue of Liberty looks toward the Greek mainland as a ferry containing migrants steams toward Athens.](https://gdb.rferl.org/02e0d6b9-f287-426f-8d1a-a8e3948cc0fc_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Lesbos's Statue of Liberty looks toward the Greek mainland as a ferry containing migrants steams toward Athens.