Information AboutKornati |
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| islands of croatia | |
| national parks of croatia | |
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The Croatia n Kornati Archipelago is located in central Dalmatia , south of Zadar . With 150 Island s in a sea area of about 320 km&2 ''Kornati'' are the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea (Skračiċ, 2003). The southern part of the archipelago, which roughly corresponds to the part of the archipelago called ''Donji Kurnat'' (Lower Kurnat) was declared a National Park in 1980. Kornat, with its area of 32,525,315 m&2, 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. There are no permanent settlements in Kornati. Simple houses in well-protected coves such as ''Vruje'', ''Kravjačica'', ''Lavsa'' and others are used by land owners as temporary shelters. Most of the land owners are from the island of REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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