About Kornati Islands
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Telašćica Bay
Telašćica Bay, after which the entire Nature Park is named, is located in the southeastern part of Dugi Otok Island. It is approximately 8 km recessed into the land, and in its southernmost widest part it is about 1.6 km wide. The part of the bay facing to the southeast opens up to the neighbouring islands of Kornati. The bay itself is very indented, counting 25 bays, capes, and 5 islets. Its position ensures protection from bura wind, a northern wind coming from the mainland, and jugo wind, a southern wind coming from the open sea. This makes Telašćica one of the largest and most protected natural ports of the eastern coast of the Adriatic. The very name Telašćica probably comes from the Latin expression “tre lagus”, which translates to “three lakes”. Thanks to his geographical position, the Nature Park - Telaščica Bay (IOTA EU170) is an ideal location for a passionate tourist and visitors who are HAM Radio Operators, and want to operate from this location. The Dry Walls on Kornati Islands Of all the artefacts that the Kornat hand had created the most important and most impressive is certainly the wall or, more precisely, the dry wall. One of the basic features of the dry walls is their orientation. Since all large islands are elongated, all the walls are built from sea to sea, i.e. from one side of the island to the other. The wall is exactly as high as it is necessary to prevent sheep jumping over it and crossing to someone's else's pasture. It is exactly as wide as it is necessary to prevent the force of the wind to break it. Another artefact in the Kornat karst attracts equal attention as the dry walls: isolated enclousers - olive groves surrounded with the dry walls. We find them in more than a hundred places in the archipelago, at "most unexpected" locations at that. On the steep sides of Škuj and Smokica, on the saddles of Smokvena and Gustac, on the gentle slopes of Njivica, Piškera, Žakan, Lavsa, Suha Punta, Statival, Pinezel, and Grba, on the level plateaus from Knježak to Šipnate. More Informations about Kornati National park: http://www.np-kornati.hr/en/ |
KRKA - National Park
VRANA LAKE - Nature Park
PAKLENICA - National Park