Mrduja
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Mrduja is an uninhabited island, only a hundredth of a square kilometer, in Splitska vrata (Split Channel) between Brač and Šolta, about 400 m from Rt Zaglav near Milna on Brač in Croatia. The island is nearer to Brač than to Šolta: A legend goes that the inhabitants of Brač and those of Šolta wrangled over whom the island belonged to so they used a rope in an attempt to pull it from one side of the Split Channel to the other. The people of Brač won the tug of war[1].
A lighthouse (CRO 099[2]), the ruins of old fortification, and several pines, agaves and opuntias grace the islet, which is the turning point for the Mrduja Regata.
[edit] Geography
| Location | Central Dalmatia |
| Surface area | 0.013 km2[3] |
| Coast line | 0.4 km[3] |
| Highest point | 11 m |
| Inhabitants | 0 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ MRDUJA :: peljar.cvs.hr
- ^ Mrduja Lighthouse - ARLHS CRO-099
- ^ a b Duplančić Leder, Tea; Ujević, Tin; Čala, Mendi (June 2004). "Coastline lengths and areas of islands in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea determined from the topographic maps at the scale of 1 : 25 000" (PDF). Geoadria (Zadar) 9 (1): 5–32. http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/14783. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
