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National Park Kornati

The Kornati National Park covers the bigger part of the Kornati waters. Because of their exceptional landscape beauty, interesting geomorphology, highly jagged and indented coast as well as because of rich communities of the submarine eco-system, the islands were made a national park in 1980.

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Kornati – Geographic Data

The Kornati archipelago, as a separate and special island group located between Šibenik and Zadar islands, covers the area of about 320 km2 and includes about 150 land units, located either permanently or frequently above the sea. The archipelago makes 12% of all the islands in the Croatian Adriatic – 1264 islands, 67 of them inhabited. It has been long attracting the attention of yachtsmen, divers, mountaineers and other nature lovers. From Balabra to Samograd, distance of 35 km or 19 nautical miles (between Long Island and Žirje islets), and from Mana to Gangarol, distance of 13 km or 7 nautical miles (between the open sea and Pašman, Vrgada and Murter) there are four island chains in two groups. One of them is the Upper Kornati – Sit and Žut island chains with 51 land unit, and the other one is the Lower Kornati with 98 land units.
The northernmost island of the archipelago is the Mala Balabra islet (43° 56′ 50” N, 15° 17′ 00” E), the southernmost one is Južnji Opuh (43° 40′ 29” N, 15° 30′ 08” E), Vela Alba is westernmost (43° 52′ 14” N, 15° 12′ 42” E), while the easternmost island is Samograd (43° 41′ 15” N, 15° 33′ 42” E).
The average area of a Kornati island is only 0.55 km2, but you have to take into account that Kornat (32.5 km2) and Žut (14.8 km2) cover about 70% of the land area. If we add Piškera, Levrnaka, Lavsa and Sita, we get 88% of the total land area of the Kornati archipelago (69,452,963 m2). Only nine islands is larger than one square kilometre and 76 of them is smaller than one hectare. According to some measurements, the coast of the island of Kornat is 66 km long, while the Lower Kornati (that is, the Kornati National Park) have the coast 238 kilometres long.

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Kornati – List Of Islands

Name of the island

(According to Excursions map NP “Kornati”)

Name of the island – nautical map   Latitude Longitude Area (m2)
  1.  Aba V.  –  43°52,00’N  15°13,00’E  383.042
  2.  Arapovac  –  43°47,75’N  15°18,30’E  9.918
  3.  Babina Guzica  –  43°42,65’N  15°30,10’E  11.176
  4.  Balun  –  43°48,40’N  15°15,50’E  49.553
  5.  Bisaga  –  43°48,55’N  15°17,20’E  92.237
  6.  Bisaga  –  43°44,75’N  15°25,60’E  6.084
  7.  Blitvica  –  43°46,35’N  15°21,65’E  5.329
  8.  Borovnik  –  43°48,70’N  15°15,50’E  273.219
  9.  Crnikovac  Šilo  43°50,75’N  15°14,45’E  20.691
 10.  Desetinjak  –  43°42,40’N  15°28,00’E  2.324
 11.  Desetinjak D.  –  43°42,55’N  15°27,80’E  1.260
 12.  Desetinjak G.  –  43°42,65’N  15°28,00’E  1.210
 13.  Dragunarica M.  –  43°51,70’N  15°13,40’E  50
 14.  Dragunarica V.  –  43°51,70’N  15°13,55’E  17.344
 15.  Garmenjak  Garmenjak V.  43°42,15’N  15°27,90’E  131.858
 16.  Golić  –  43°48,80’N  15°16,80’E  10.275
 17.  Gominjak  –  43°43,30’N  15°24,90’E  253.298
 18.  Grego  Garmenjak M.  43°42,50’N  15°28,10’E  50.204
 19  Gustac  –  43°46,60’N  15°21,25’E  284.502
 20.  Gustac  –  43°44,85’N  15°23,30’E  284.450
 21.  Janjčar  Jančar  43°43,20’N  15°26,15’E  59.309
 22.  Kalafatin  Hrid Prišnjak  43°50,20’N  15°14,45’E  77
 23.  Kalafatin (Hrid Kamičić)  Hrid Kamičić  43°47,60’N  15°17,20’E  844
 24.  Kalafatin D.  Hrid Kamičić  43°47,55’N  15°17,20’E  72
 25.  Kalafatin od Gustaca (Hrid Gizela)  Hrid Grislac  43°46,50’N  15°21,55’E  26
 26.  Kalafatin od Piškere  Hrid Kamičić  43°46,15’N  15°21,40’E  41
 27.  Kalafatin od Ropotnice  Hrid Kalafatin  43°46,65’N  15°21,90’E  4
 28.  Kasela  –
 43°44,50’N
 15°23,70’E  342.384
 29.  Kaselica  –  43°44,25’N  15°23,95’E  2.469
 30.  Kolobučar  Klobučar
 43°44,40’N
 15°23,25’E  110.003
 31.  Koritnjak  –  43°46,95’N  15°20,55’E  116.600
 32.  Kornat  –  43°48,10’N  15°20,00’E  32.463.820
 33.  Kurba  Kurba Vela  43°41,80’N  15°29,85’E  1.736.793
 34.  Lavsa  –  43°45,10’N  15°22,50’E  1.756.113
 35.  Levrnaka  –  43°49,30’N  15°15,30’E  1.833.883
 36.  Lučmarinjak  –  43°41,00’N  15°29,30’E  100.503
 37.  Lunga  –  43°43,75’N  15°25,40’E  617.814
 38.  Mana  –  43°48,10’N  15°16,50’E  395.627
 39.  Maslinjak  –  43°48,00’N  15°18,00’E  65.363
 40  Mrtenjak  Mrtovnjak
 43°42,50’N
 15°32,40’E  97.928
 41.  Mrtvac  Mrtovac
 43°49,55’N
 15°14,10’E  48.875
 42.  Obručan M.  –  43°50,15’N  15°13,50’E  4.618
 43.  Obručan V.  –  43°50,10’N  15°13,90’E  96.552
 44.  Okjuč  –  43°41,70’N  15°28,65’E  358.291
 45.  Opuh Južni  Puh G.  43°40,50’N  15°30,20’E  7.175
 46.  Opuh Kameni  Kameni Puh  43°40,60’N  15°31,35’E  9.290
 47.  Opuh Vodeni  Vodeni Puh  43°40,70’N  15°30,95’E  6.766
 48.  Opuh Zmorašnji  Puh
 43°40,60’N
 15°29,95’E
 13.625
 49.  Oršjak (Krpejina)  Krpeljina  43°45,30’N  15°24,65’E  13.449
 50.  Panitula M.  –  43°45,30’N  15°21,50’E  30.699
 51.  Panitula V.  –  43°45,50’N  15°20,90’E  147.762
 52.  Piškera (Jadra)  Piškera
 43°46,05’N
 15°20,60’E  2.668.046
 53.  Plescina  –
 43°48,50’N
 15°16,50’E  39.846
 54.  Prduša  Prduša V.  43°42,85’N  15°27,40’E  48.779
 55.  Prišnjak V. (Crnikovac)  Prišnjak V.
 43°44,30’N
 15°24,45’E  91.812
 56.  Prišnjak M.  –  43°44,20’N  15°24,65’E  6.464
 57.  Purara M.  Hrid Klint  43°41,60’N
 15°26,90’E
 2.288
 58.  Purara V.  Purara
 43°41,85’N
 15°26,50’E  24.423
 59.  Rašip  Rašip V.  43°46,70’N  15°18,60’E  246.069
 60.  Rašip M.  –  43°47,35’N  15°17,75’E  154.559
 61.  Rašipić  –  43°47,05’N  15°18,20’E  10.872
 62.  Samograd  –
 43°41,30’N
 15°33,65’E  44.894
 63.  Sika Ravna  –  43°44,80’N  15°25,80’E  40.210
 64.  Sikica D.  Bubuljaš V.  43°47,95’N  15°17,30’E  5.710
 65.  Sikica G.  Bubuljaš M.  43°48,05’N
 15°17,55’E
 3.585
 66.  Sikica Plitka  Bisagica
 43°48,20’N
 15°17,70’E  2.594
 67.  Skrižanja M.  Skrižanj M.
 43°42,10’N
 15°31,40’E  12.694
 68.  Skrižanja V.  Skrižanj V.  43°41,95’N
 15°31,70’E
 71.701
 69.  Smokica M.  Smokvica M.  43°43,45’N
 15°29,50’E
 9.285
 70.  Smokica V.  Smokvica V.  43°43,70’N  15°28,80’E  1.054.430
 71.  Smokvenjak  –
 43°51,00’N
 15°14,60’E
 79.108
 72.  Strižnjak  –  43°49,15’N
 15°17,10’E
 26.778
 73.  Sušica  –  43°49,70’N
 15°15,35’E
 58.431
 74.  Svršata  Svršata Vela  43°51,65’N
 15°16,85’E
 270.089
 75.  Svršata Mala  –
 43°51,55’N
 15°17,50’E
 15.159
 76.  Šilo  Šilo Velo  43°51,30’N  15°14,05’E  676.758
 77.  Škanj Mali  Hrid Škanj  43°45,35’N
 15°21,35’E
 683
 78.  Škanj V.  Hrid Škanj
 43°45,35’N
 15°21,25’E
 2.015
 79.  Škuj  Škulj
 43°43,30’N
 15°27,60’E
 881.017
 80.  Tovarnjak (V. Prišnjak)  Prišnjak V.
 43°50,30’N
 15°14,70’E
 23.841
 81.  Vesejuh  Veseljuh  43°45,90’N
 15°22,20’E
 14.888
 82.  Vodenjak  –  43°43,75’N
 15°24,20’E
 80.964
 83.  Vodenjak (Prduša M.)  Prduša M.  43°42,60’N
 15°27,40’E
 25.333
 84.  Vodenjak M. (Žakanac)  Žakanac  43°43,30’N
 15°25,90’E
 7.343
 85.  Volić Hr.  –  43°42,10’N  15°26,10’E  950
 86.  Vrtlić  –
 43°41,60’N
 15°33,00’E  13.525
 87.  Zornik  –  43°51,20’N  15°14,50’E  6.635
 88.  Žakan Kameni  –  43°43,15’N
 15°26,60’E
 320.008
 89.  Žakan Ravni  –  43°43,65’N  15°26,35’E  301.058

Total area: 49.667.648 

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History of Kornati National Park

1965. First written proposal for the establishment of Kornati National Park (Sven Kulušić: “Kornati Island Group”, Geography Herald, 27, 215-245, Zagreb, 1965): “… Kornati island group will present a priceless national treasure in modern tourism only under condition that it remains as it was a few years ago: a beautiful, untouched and unspoiled image of the past, a monument to the human labour and a witness of a difficult life struggle. Whether it’s attainable, it’s the question that can only be answered by the community, not excluding the possibility of establishing a national park…”

1967. The Executive Council of the Parliament of SR Croatia announces the passage of the Decision to Proclaim the Kornati Islands (all four island chains) and the southeast part of Long Island with the Telašćica Bay for a natural area reservation as described in the Nature Conservation Act, articles 20 and 22 (Decision Nr. 3178/2-238-1967, 30. June 1967., “Narodne Novine” 31/67). With that decision, Kornati received one of the lowest forms of protection, one that didn’t provide for the reservation’s own management.

1976. A study created as a proposal for a discussion of the new Spatial Plan for the areas with special purposes. That is, a proposal to create a national park of the Kornati Islands and the southeast part of Long Island.

1980. The Parliament of SR Croatia enacted Kornati National Park Act (“Narodne novine” 31/80) which came into force on August 13, 1980. Kornati National Park included the so-called Lower Kornati (Kornat Island and Piškera island chains) as well as the southeast part of Long Island with the Telašćica Bay.

1981. Management for a part of Kornati National Park founded in Šibenik.

1982. Management for a part of Kornati National Park founded in Zadar.

1983. County councils of Šibenik and Zadar signed the Agreement on common promotion, conservation and protection of Kornati National Park.

1985. In April, after the county councils in Šibenik and Zadar couldn’t agree on the management of Kornati National Park, the council of County Group in Split passed the Decision to establish pre-incorporated Work Organization Kornati National Park ((“Službeni glasnik Zajednice općina Split” 3/85) which was then registered at the County Court in Split in September.

1986. In May, a court finally dissolves the two managements of parts of the national park.

1986. In July, Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park published. (“Službeni vjesnik općina Drniš, Knin i Šibenik” 20/86)

1988. Because of divergent approaches to the park management by the two counties covering parts of the park, Act on Changing the Kornati National Park Act was enacted in April (“Narodne novine” 14/88). The northwest part of the existing Kornati National Park was marked off and established as Telašćica Nature Park, while the bigger part of the national park in the area covered by Šibenik County retained the status and the name of Kornati National Park (223.75 km2 with 91 islands, islets and reefs).

1990. The Decision to Establish Spatial Plan of Kornati National Park (“Narodne novine” 2/90) enacted in the Parliament of SR Croatia at the session of the Council of Counties (27. 12. 1989), and then at the session of the Council of Workers (11. 01. 1990).

1994. Croatian Parliament enacted Nature Conservation Act. (“Narodne novine” 30/94 and 72/94)

1996. Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Part brought into force. (“Narodne novine” 38/96)

1997. Act on the Changes to the Kornati National Park Act enacted (“Narodne novine” 13/97). The boundaries of the Park were changed so the Park subsequently covered 217 km2 with 89 islands, islets and reefs.

2003. Croatian Parliament brought into force a new Spatial Plan for the Kornati NP (Narodne novine 118/03)

2003. Croatian Parliament enacted a new Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 162/03)

2005. Croatian Parliament enacted a new Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 70/05).

2008. Croatian Parliament enacted Changes and Amendments to the Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 139/08).

2010. A new Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park enacted and was put into effect on January 1, 2011. (“N.N.” 141/10)

2011. Changes and Amendments to the Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park enacted. (“N.N” 53/11)

2011. Croatian Parliament enacted Changes and Amendments to the Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 57/11)

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Kornati – Geographic Data

The Kornati archipelago, as a separate and special island group located between Šibenik and Zadar islands, covers the area of about 320 km2 and includes about 150 land units, located either permanently or frequently above the sea. The archipelago makes 12% of all the islands in the Croatian Adriatic – 1264 islands, 67 of them inhabited. It has been long attracting the attention of yachtsmen, divers, mountaineers and other nature lovers. From Balabra to Samograd, distance of 35 km or 19 nautical miles (between Long Island and Žirje islets), and from Mana to Gangarol, distance of 13 km or 7 nautical miles (between the open sea and Pašman, Vrgada and Murter) there are four island chains in two groups. One of them is the Upper Kornati – Sit and Žut island chains with 51 land unit, and the other one is the Lower Kornati with 98 land units.
The northernmost island of the archipelago is the Mala Balabra islet (43° 56′ 50” N, 15° 17′ 00” E), the southernmost one is Južnji Opuh (43° 40′ 29” N, 15° 30′ 08” E), Vela Alba is westernmost (43° 52′ 14” N, 15° 12′ 42” E), while the easternmost island is Samograd (43° 41′ 15” N, 15° 33′ 42” E).
The average area of a Kornati island is only 0.55 km2, but you have to take into account that Kornat (32.5 km2) and Žut (14.8 km2) cover about 70% of the land area. If we add Piškera, Levrnaka, Lavsa and Sita, we get 88% of the total land area of the Kornati archipelago (69,452,963 m2). Only nine islands is larger than one square kilometre and 76 of them is smaller than one hectare. According to some measurements, the coast of the island of Kornat is 66 km long, while the Lower Kornati (that is, the Kornati National Park) have the coast 238 kilometres long.

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Kornati – List Of Islands

Name of the island Area (m2)
  1.  Aba V.  383.042
  2.  Arapovac  9.918
  3.  Babina Guzica  11.176
  4.  Balun  49.553
  5.  Bisaga  92.237
  6.  Bisaga  6.084
  7.  Blitvica  5.329
  8.  Borovnik  273.219
  9.  Crnikovac  20.691
 10.  Desetinjak  2.324
 11.  Desetinjak D.  1.260
 12.  Desetinjak G.  1.210
 13.  Dragunarica M.  50
 14.  Dragunarica V.  17.344
 15.  Garmenjak  131.858
 16.  Golić  10.275
 17.  Gominjak  253.298
 18.  Grego  50.204
 19  Gustac  284.502
 20.  Gustac  284.450
 21.  Janjčar  59.309
 22.  Kalafatin  77
 23.  Kalafatin (Hrid Kamičić)  844
 24.  Kalafatin D.  72
 25.  Kalafatin od Gustaca (Hrid Gizela)  26
 26.  Kalafatin od Piškere  41
 27.  Kalafatin od Ropotnice  4
 28.  Kasela  342.384
 29.  Kaselica  2.469
 30.  Kolobučar  110.003
 31.  Koritnjak  116.600
 32.  Kornat  32.463.820
 33.  Kurba  1.736.793
 34.  Lavsa  1.756.113
 35.  Levrnaka  1.833.883
 36.  Lučmarinjak  100.503
 37.  Lunga  617.814
 38.  Mana  395.627
 39.  Maslinjak  65.363
 40  Mrtenjak  97.928
 41.  Mrtvac  48.875
 42.  Obručan M.  4.618
 43.  Obručan V.  96.552
 44.  Okjuč  358.291
 45.  Opuh Južni  7.175
 46.  Opuh Kameni  9.290
 47.  Opuh Vodeni  6.766
 48.  Opuh Zmorašnji  13.625
 49.  Oršjak (Krpejina)  13.449
 50.  Panitula M.  30.699
 51.  Panitula V.  147.762
 52.  Piškera (Jadra)  2.668.046
 53.  Plescina  39.846
 54.  Prduša  48.779
 55.  Prišnjak V. (Crnikovac)  91.812
 56.  Prišnjak M.  6.464
 57.  Purara M.  2.288
 58.  Purara V.  24.423
 59.  Rašip  246.069
 60.  Rašip M.  154.559
 61.  Rašipić  10.872
 62.  Samograd  44.894
 63.  Sika Ravna  40.210
 64.  Sikica D.  5.710
 65.  Sikica G.  3.585
 66.  Sikica Plitka  2.594
 67.  Skrižanja M.  12.694
 68.  Skrižanja V.  71.701
 69.  Smokica M.  9.285
 70.  Smokica V.  1.054.430
 71.  Smokvenjak  79.108
 72.  Strižnjak  26.778
 73.  Sušica  58.431
 74.  Svršata  270.089
 75.  Svršata Mala  15.159
 76.  Šilo  676.758
 77.  Škanj Mali  683
 78.  Škanj V.  2.015
 79.  Škuj  881.017
 80.  Tovarnjak (V. Prišnjak)  23.841
 81.  Vesejuh  14.888
 82.  Vodenjak  80.964
 83.  Vodenjak (Prduša M.)  25.333
 84.  Vodenjak M. (Žakanac)  7.343
 85.  Volić Hr.  950
 86.  Vrtlić  13.525
 87.  Zornik  6.635
 88.  Žakan Kameni  320.008
 89.  Žakan Ravni  301.058
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History of Kornati National Park

1965. First written proposal for the establishment of Kornati National Park (Sven Kulušić: “Kornati Island Group”, Geography Herald, 27, 215-245, Zagreb, 1965): “… Kornati island group will present a priceless national treasure in modern tourism only under condition that it remains as it was a few years ago: a beautiful, untouched and unspoiled image of the past, a monument to the human labour and a witness of a difficult life struggle. Whether it’s attainable, it’s the question that can only be answered by the community, not excluding the possibility of establishing a national park…”

1967. The Executive Council of the Parliament of SR Croatia announces the passage of the Decision to Proclaim the Kornati Islands (all four island chains) and the southeast part of Long Island with the Telašćica Bay for a natural area reservation as described in the Nature Conservation Act, articles 20 and 22 (Decision Nr. 3178/2-238-1967, 30. June 1967., “Narodne Novine” 31/67). With that decision, Kornati received one of the lowest forms of protection, one that didn’t provide for the reservation’s own management.

1976. A study created as a proposal for a discussion of the new Spatial Plan for the areas with special purposes. That is, a proposal to create a national park of the Kornati Islands and the southeast part of Long Island.

1980. The Parliament of SR Croatia enacted Kornati National Park Act (“Narodne novine” 31/80) which came into force on August 13, 1980. Kornati National Park included the so-called Lower Kornati (Kornat Island and Piškera island chains) as well as the southeast part of Long Island with the Telašćica Bay.

1981. Management for a part of Kornati National Park founded in Šibenik.

1982. Management for a part of Kornati National Park founded in Zadar.

1983. County councils of Šibenik and Zadar signed the Agreement on common promotion, conservation and protection of Kornati National Park.

1985. In April, after the county councils in Šibenik and Zadar couldn’t agree on the management of Kornati National Park, the council of County Group in Split passed the Decision to establish pre-incorporated Work Organization Kornati National Park ((“Službeni glasnik Zajednice općina Split” 3/85) which was then registered at the County Court in Split in September.

1986. In May, a court finally dissolves the two managements of parts of the national park.

1986. In July, Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park published. (“Službeni vjesnik općina Drniš, Knin i Šibenik” 20/86)

1988. Because of divergent approaches to the park management by the two counties covering parts of the park, Act on Changing the Kornati National Park Act was enacted in April (“Narodne novine” 14/88). The northwest part of the existing Kornati National Park was marked off and established as Telašćica Nature Park, while the bigger part of the national park in the area covered by Šibenik County retained the status and the name of Kornati National Park (223.75 km2 with 91 islands, islets and reefs).

1990. The Decision to Establish Spatial Plan of Kornati National Park (“Narodne novine” 2/90) enacted in the Parliament of SR Croatia at the session of the Council of Counties (27. 12. 1989), and then at the session of the Council of Workers (11. 01. 1990).

1994. Croatian Parliament enacted Nature Conservation Act. (“Narodne novine” 30/94 and 72/94)

1996. Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Part brought into force. (“Narodne novine” 38/96)

1997. Act on the Changes to the Kornati National Park Act enacted (“Narodne novine” 13/97). The boundaries of the Park were changed so the Park subsequently covered 217 km2 with 89 islands, islets and reefs.

2003. Croatian Parliament brought into force a new Spatial Plan for the Kornati NP (Narodne novine 118/03)

2003. Croatian Parliament enacted a new Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 162/03)

2005. Croatian Parliament enacted a new Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 70/05).

2008. Croatian Parliament enacted Changes and Amendments to the Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 139/08).

2010. A new Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park enacted and was put into effect on January 1, 2011. (“N.N.” 141/10)

2011. Changes and Amendments to the Ordinance on Order in Kornati National Park enacted. (“N.N” 53/11)

2011. Croatian Parliament enacted Changes and Amendments to the Nature Conservation Act. (“N.N.” 57/11)