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List of islands of Croatia

List of islands of Croatia

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This is a list of islands of Croatia. There are over a thousand islands in Croatia, the exact number varying by definitions, and they cover a total area of about 3,300 km2 (1,300 sq mi).[1] The number and classification of islands in Croatia varies over time and by different measurements, causing some domestic controversy when discrepancies are found.[2]

Map of the Croatian islands

Largest islands

These are the larger ones, sorted approximately from northwest to southeast:

Northern seacoast

Northern Dalmatia

Central and southern Dalmatia

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 (0.04 sq mi), islets are between 0.1 and 1.0 km2 (0.04 and 0.39 sq mi) and islands proper are bigger than 1.0 km2 (0.39 sq mi).[3]

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According to measurements obtained in early 2000s the largest islands in the Adriatic Sea are Cres with an area of 405.70 km2 (156.64 sq mi), and Krk with an area of 405.22 km2 (156.46 sq mi) (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 (0.40 sq mi).[3] 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.[3] The biggest islet is Badija with an area of 0.97 km2 (0.37 sq mi), while the smallest one is Galicija covering 0.01 km2 (0.0039 sq mi).[3]

List of islands

The following table lists the 79 Croatian islands having an area of 1 km2 (0.39 sq mi) or more, sorted by their surface area from largest to smallest. The area data is rounded off to the second decimal.

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Selected islets

The following is an incomplete list of islets.

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).[4] 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.[4]

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.[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    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. 9 (1). Zadar: 5–32. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
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    "Kartografi protiv Turističke zajednice - Imamo 1246 otoka, tko je izgubio dva, ne znamo". Jutarnji list (in Croatian). 8 June 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  3. [3]
    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. 9 (1). Zadar, Croatia: Hrvatsko geografsko društvo - Zadar, Geography Department, University of Zadar. ISSN 1331-2294. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  4. [4]
    Croatian Bureau of Statistics (2009). "Geographical and meteorological data" (PDF). Statistical Yearbook for 2009. Croatian Bureau of Statistics. p. 44. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  5. [5]
    Biondich, Mark (2005). Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture, page 414. ABC-CLIO; ISBN 1-57607-800-0.
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