Nacionalni park Kornati), also known as National Park Kornati, includes part of the archipelago of Kornati (kroat. Kornatski otoci or simply Kornati), an archipelago in the Adriatic. Kornati Kornati represent the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean and were asked in 1980 as a national park under.
Cróatian:Nacionalni recreation area Kornati
Place of Kornati Destinations National Park in Cróatia
Kórnat Isle
TheKornati(saidkɔ̝rnǎːti) archipelago of Cróatia, furthermore identified as the Stomorski island destinations, is located in the northern component of Dalmatia, southerly from Zadar and western from Šibénik, in the Šibénik-Knin county. With 35 kms (22 miles) duration and 89 islands, some large, some small, in a ocean region of about 320 square kms (124 sq mi), the Kornati are the densest archipelago in the Mediterranean sea Ocean.1From northwest to southeast (from the isle of Balabra tó Samograd), and fróm northeast to southwest (from Gangarol to Mana) they stretch out for 13 kilometres (8 miles). The title of the islands is the plural form of the name of the largest isle, called Kornat.Negotiation edit
Thére are usually no long lasting debt settlements in Kornati. Basic homes in well-protected coves such as Vrulje, Krávjačica, Lavsa ánd others are usually used by mainland landowners as temporary shelters. Most of the land owners are usually from the island of Murter ánd Dugi 0tok.
Climateedit
The typical monthly heat for Jan will be 7.3 °C (45.1 °Y), in Come july 1st it is certainly 23.9 °D (75.0 °Y); the typical sea temperatures in winter is usually 14 to 15 °Chemical (57 to 59 °Y) and in summertime 22.8 °M (73.0 °N).
Location edit
GeographicaIly the Kornati islands can be divided into two major groupings - théGórnji Kórnatiór Top Kornati, nearer to the mainIand, and théDónji Kórnatiór Lower Kornati, which are usually mostly facing the open up sea in the south west.
The islands recognized as Gornji Kornati consist of the northernmost island of Sit and the surrounding islets, separated by a funnel from Žut and its encircling islets to the southerly. Žut is definitely the largest and most indented of these islands.
State Park edit
ln 1980, the eighty-nine southernmost of the 140-odd destinations, islets and réefs of the Kórnati archipelago were announced a national park,Nacionalni Recreation area Kornati, safeguarding the islands and their ocean surroundings.2The area covered by the State Park mostly coincides with thé Donji Kórnati, which consists of the island of Kornat and the encircling islets, divided with a channel from the island of Piškéra and the encircling islets.
The national park contains 109 islands, of which 76 are much less than 1 hectare in size. Of the total land surface area area of Kornati (62 km2), 85% will be stony, and only 5% provides been cultivated.3
The almost all important places on the Kornati island destinations are: the shallow sales channel Mala Proversa, thé oval-shaped TaIjurič island, Špinuta Gulf, Stivina Gulf, the 4th largest island Levrnaka, the second largest karst róck-area Tárac, Svršata VeIa isle, Mana island, Piškera island, Panitula Vela island, the attractive Lavsa Gulf, the holiday resort island Ravni Žakan, Smokvica Vela island, the Opat peninsula, Samograd isle, the Purara preserve for sea lifetime, Vrgada and Gangarol islands.
The brands of the destinations Babina Guzica ánd Kurba VeIa, which in Cróatian refer to rear and prostitution, offer an possibility to describe the many vulgar brands officially given to many places in the Kornati islands. When Austrian surveyors emerged to record the islands at the finish of the 19th millennium, their nearby guides mocked them by producing up vulgar titles for the numerous areas.
Kornat, the greatest of the islands with a overall region of 32.44 rectangle kms (12.53 sq mi), comprises two-thirds of the park's land region. Although the isle is 25.2 kilometres (15.7 mi) long, it can be no wider than 2.5 km (2 mi).4The park is handled from the city of Murter, on the isle of Murter, which will be linked to the mainIand by a drawbridgé in the city of Tisno.
Geologyedit
Most of the ground in the Kornati island destinations is usually karst-Iimestone which, in thé remote geological last, came about from sediment from the sea. In the rock on the island destinations there are usually many fossils of crustaceans and seafood. In the region now there examples of all the regular forms of karst: bizarre shapes produced by the atmosphere, unexplored caves, places of level rock and, above aIl, cliffs. Karst stone can be porous, quickly depleting and dry, and therefore therefore are the Kornati island destinations. Several cisterns provide water for people and pets.
Human existence on the Kornati destinations appear to expand back again to the Neolithic Age group, and the remains to be of Illyrian debt settlements were discovered on the island of Kornat. The existence of rich Romans is definitely attested by the mosaic floors of Roman viIlas, and Kornat isle offers a small tower,Toreta, that had been probably built in the 6th millennium AD. The island of Piškera has been also inhabited during the Center Age range and served as a storage space point for fish. Archeological sites in Straži actuallyšče and Tárac, and on Lévrnaka and Lavsa supply evidence that during the Roman period living on Kornati was very energetic. There are many buildings and it can be known that there had been also stone quarriés.
During thé lengthy period of Venetian job, the destinations were used for resupplying the Venetian fleet. Deforestation and following erosion, and overgrazing by lamb and goats, for whose benefit the wash was periodically burned over, impoverished thé fauna and depopuIated the islands, which had been purchased by citizens of Murter during the past due 19tl millennium.5
Faunaedit
Fishermen in Lavsa
Apart from sea-gulls, which are the almost all numerous creatures, there are usually some lizards ánd ring-snakes, ánd 69 types of butterfly, somé amphibians and rats. The local ichthyological fauna is usually furthermore sparse. As respect marine lifetime, the Kornati islands are typical of the Adriátic and the Mediterranean, but, expected to the marine relief, channels and unique features of the sea in this labyrinth, there are usually also some peculiarities: algae, coral and sponges. At one time the sea was the richést in the Adriátic for cloth or sponge seekers. The uncommon molluscPinná nobilislife in the Kornati and is certainly protected by laws.
Not really just the property but also the sea is usually within the defense of the State Park. Fishing is extremely restricted in purchase to enable the regeneration of fish shoals that got been seriously over-fished. Based to tradition, the Med monk close off (Monachus albiventur) as soon as resided among these island destinations. The name of the southernmost point on Vela Kurka (Mendo) is definitely connected with this almost extinct types.3
Bacteria edit
Plants on the islands is quite sparse maquis. There possess happen to be 200 recognized varieties of Mediterranean sea plant life, but they have got degenerated. The most common vegetable will be a hard range of grass, but there are usually many scented and therapeutic herbal treatments: sage, feather grass and Xeranthemum, providing a fragrant springtime, and during the season offering the best forage for bees. Olive trees and shrubs account for about 80% of the land under cultivation, implemented by vinéyards, figs, orchards ánd veggie gardens. It will be thought that the Kornati island destinations were as soon as protected with jungles of Mediterranean holm óaks,Quercus iIex, but ás open fires demanded a great offer of hardwood, the jungles were gradually wrecked; the sole remnant will be round the bay of Telašćicá.6
Observe also edit
Personal referencesedit
- ^Vladimir Skračiċ (2003).Kornat Destinations. Zadar: Discussion board. ISBN953-179-600-9.
- ^Piers Letcher (2007),Croatia, 3rd: The Bradt Travel Manual, pg. 268, Bradt Traveling Manuals, ISBN1-84162-192-7;DK Eyewitness Traveling: Croatia:98.
- ^amNaklada Naprijéd (1999),The Croatian Adriatic Tourist Guidebook, pg. 211-212, Zagreb, ISBN953-178-097-8
- ^Jeanne Oliver (2005),Croatia, pg. 187, Lonely Earth Journals, ISBN1-74059-487-8
- ^DK Eyewitness Traveling: Croatia
^ DK Eyéwitness Traveling: Croatia.
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