Category: Croatian Islands

Pašman (pronounced [pǎʃman]) is an island off the coast of the Adriatic Sea in Croatia with an area of 60.11  km2[1], located to the south of Zadar, surrounded by the islands Ugljan, Iž, Dugi otok and Kornati. The municipality of Pašman is inhabited by 2,004 people (2001).There are 11 villages on Pašman, from SE to NW: […]

Čiovo (pronounced [tʃîɔv̞ɔ]; Italian: Bua) is a small island located off the Adriatic coast in Croatia with an area of 28.8 km2 (length 15.3 km, width up to 3.5 km)[1], population of 6,071 inhabitants (2001) and its highest peak is 218 m (Rudine).The centre of the island has geographical coordinates 43°30′N 16°17′E, and the annual rainfall is about […]

Molat (pronounced [mɔ̌lat]; Italian: Melada) is an island in Croatian part of Adriatic Sea. It is situated near Zadar, southeast from Ist, separated by Zapuntel strait. It has area of 22.82 km².[1][2]The settlements on the island are Molat (population 96), Zapuntel (pop. 58) and Brgulje (pop. 53),[3] and they are situated in the interior of the […]

Krapanj is an island of Croatia in the central Dalmatian county of Šibenik-Knin.Krapanj is one of the smallest inhabited islands of the Adriatic Sea covering 0.36 km2. It is also the most densely inhabited island and has the lowest elevation of 1.5 m above sea level. Krapanj is 300 m offshore at its closest point from the mainland […]

Škarda is an uninhabited Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea located between Premuda and Ist (island). Its area is 3.78 km2 (1.46 sq mi).[1]The island had a population of 26 in the year 2001, but now the tourists replace them completely.[2][3]Source: Wikipedia

Goli otok (pronounced [ɡôliː ǒtok]; literal translation: barren island, Italian: Isola Calva) is an island off the northern Adriatic coast, located between Rab‘s northeastern shore and the mainland, in what is today Croatia‘s Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. The island is barren and uninhabited. Its northern shore is almost completely bare, while the southern one has small amounts […]

The Brijuni Islands had some Ancient Roman settlements, but up to the late 19th century the islands were mainly used for their quarries, which have been worked on for centuries. The islands belonged to Venice from the Middle Ages, and stone from the islands was used to build the palaces and bridges of the city.[1] […]

The Kornati (pronounced [kɔ̝rnǎːti]) archipelago of Croatia, also known as the Stomorski islands, is located in the northern part of Dalmatia, south from Zadar and west from Šibenik, in the Šibenik-Knin county. With 35 km in length and 140 islands, some large, some small, in a sea area of about 320 km², the Kornati are the densest archipelago […]

Ugljan (pronounced [ûɡʎan]; Italian: Ugliano) is a Croatian island and the first in the Zadar Archipelago. It is located northwest of the island of Pašman and southeast of the islands of Rivanj and Sestrunj. Separated from the mainland by the Zadar Channel, it is connected with the island of Pašman by a bridge spanning over the […]

Brač (Croatian pronunciation: [brâːtʃ]; local dialect: Broč; Latin: Bretia, Brattia; Italian: Brazza) is an island in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia, with an area of 396 km²,[1] making it the largest island in Dalmatia, and the third largest in the Adriatic. Its tallest peak, Vidova gora, or Mount St. Vid, stands at 778 m, making it the […]