List of islands of Croatia
This is a list of islands of Croatia. There are over a thousand islands in Croatia, the exact number varying according to definitions, and they cover a total area of about 3,300 km2 (1,300 sq mi).
The number and classification of islands in Croatia varies over time and across different measurements, causing some domestic controversy when discrepancies are found.[1]
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[edit] Largest islands
These are the larger ones, sorted approximately from northwest to southeast:
Northern seacoast:
- the Brijuni islands (a national park)
- Krk (quite large, has an international airport)
- Plavnik
- Cres
- Lošinj
- Ilovik
- Unije
- Susak (a handful of people with a rather characteristic dialect)
- Prvić
- Sveti Grgur
- Goli otok (previously known as a prison, translation: "barren island")
- Rab
- Pag (known for its cheese and its sea salt)
- Olib
- Silba
- Premuda
- Ist
- Molat
Northern Dalmatia:
- Vir
- Dugi otok (translation: "long island")
- Ugljan
- Iž
- Pašman
- the Kornati archipelago (also a national park)
- Krapanj
- Murter
- Sestrunj
- Škarda
- Zlarin
Central and southern Dalmatia:
- Čiovo
- Drvenik
- Šolta
- Brač (known for its stone quarries)
- Hvar (the sunniest one)
- Vis (inhabited since ancient Greece, previously a naval base)
- Biševo
- Brusnik
- Jabuka - one of the smallest island in Adriatic sea, closest to Italy
- Svetac
- Korčula (the most populated one)
- Lastovo
- Mljet (includes a national park)
- the Elaphiti islands - Koločep, Lopud, Šipan
- Lokrum (just outside Dubrovnik harbour)
- Palagruža (a tiny, southernmost one)
- Žirje
- Žut
The two largest peninsulas are Istria and Pelješac.
[edit] Hydrographic Institute definitions
The Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia classifies all landforms surrounded by water in the Adriatic Sea as islands (Croatian: otoci), islets (otočići) and rocks (hridi). The categorization is determined according to their surface area. Rocks are defined as islets smaller than 0.1 km², islets are between 0.1 and 1.0 km² and islands proper are bigger than 1.0 km².[2]
| # |
Number |
Area (km²) |
Percentage of total area |
Coastline length (km) |
Percentage of total coastline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Islands | 79 | 3,195.71 | 3,573.81 | ||
| Islets | 525 | 62.41 | 717.80 | ||
| Rocks and rocks awash | 642 | 1.44 | 106.82 | ||
| Total | 1246 | 3,259.57 | 4,398.44 | ||
| Source: T. Duplančić Leder, T. Ujević, M. Čala: Coastline lengths and areas... Geoadria, 9/1, 5-32, 2004.[2] | |||||
According to measurements obtained in early 2000s the largest islands in the Adriatic Sea are Cres with an area of 405.70 km2, and Krk with an area of 405.22 km2 (In earlier literature, including atlases, Krk was usually cited as the largest island). The smallest island is Smokvica Vela (Kornati) with an area of 1.04 km2.[2]
The island with the longest coastline of 302.47 km (187.95 mi) is Pag, being the fifth according to area value and the island with the shortest coastline length of 5.8 km (3.60 mi) is Vele Orjule.[2]
The biggest islet is Badija with an area of 0.97 km2, while the smallest one is Galicija covering 0.01 km2.[2]
[edit] List of islands
The following table lists the 79 Croatian islands having an area of 1 km2 or more, sorted by their surface area from largest to smallest. The area data is rounded off to the second decimal.
[edit] Selected islets
The following is an incomplete list of islets.
- Badija
- Brijuni
- Galešnjak
- Galijula, most southern Croatian island.
- Jabuka
- Knežak
- Košljun
- Kozjak
- Krapanj
- Lokrum
- Lunga (Kornat)
- Lupac
- Male Srakane
- Olipa
- Ošljak
- Palagruža
- Radelj
- Ruda
- Sveti Andrija
[edit] Bureau of Statistics definitions
The Croatian Bureau of Statistics uses data from the Geographical Department of the Faculty of Science of the University of Zagreb, which classifies a total of 1,185 islands, rocks and reefs: 48 inhabited islands, 670 uninhabited islands (Croatian: otoci), 389 rocks (hridi) and 78 reefs (grebeni).[3]
The rocks and reefs are defined as the "rocky remains of an islet or a rocky formation destroyed by abrasion", differentiated by whether they are "always above sea level" or "at, under or above sea level (at low tide)", respectively.[3]
[edit] Other definitions
Mark Biondich's Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture puts the number of Croatian islands at 1,246. Of these, there are 718 islands in the conventional sense, 389 cliffs, and 78 reefs.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Kartografi protiv Turističke zajednice - Imamo 1246 otoka, tko je izgubio dva, ne znamo" (in Croatian). Jutarnji list. 2010-06-08. http://www.jutarnji.hr/imamo-1246-otoka--tko-je-izgubio-dva--ne-znamo/821991/. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ a b c d e Duplančić Leder, Tea; Ujević, Tin; Čala, Mendi (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea as determined from topographic maps at a 1:25,000 scale" (PDF). Geoadria (Zadar, Croatia: Hrvatsko geografsko društvo - Zadar, Geography Department, University of Zadar) 9 (1). ISSN 1331-2294. http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=14783&lang=en. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ a b Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2009). "Geographical and meteorological data" (PDF). Statistical Yearbook for 2009. Croatian Bureau of Statistics. p. 44. http://www.dzs.hr/Hrv_Eng/ljetopis/2009/PDF/01-bind.pdf. Retrieved 2011-10-09.
- ^ Biondich, Mark (2005). Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture. ABC-CLIO. p. 414. ISBN 1-57607-800-0.
[edit] External links
- "The Islands Act (Refined Text)" (PDF). Ministry of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure. 2006-03-08. http://www.mmpi.hr/UserDocsImages/080306-islands-act.pdf. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
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