Kornati

The Croatian Kornati archipelago is located in central Dalmatia, south of Zadar. With 150 islands in a sea area of about 320 km² Kornati are the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea (Skra?i?, 2003).

Related Topics:
Croatia - Archipelago - Dalmatia - Zadar - Island - Mediterranean Sea

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Southern part of the archipelago, which roughly corresponds to the part of the archipelago called Donji Kurnat (Lower Kurnat) was declared national park in 1980.

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Kornat, with the area of 32,525,315 m² the biggest of the islands, comprises two-thirds of the park's land area. Although the island is 25.2 km long, it is not wider than about 2.5 km.

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There are no permanent settlements in Kornati. Simple houses in well-protected coves such as Vruje, Kravja?ica, Lavsa and others are used by land owners as a temporary shelter. Most of the land owners are from the island of Murter.

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