Stražica Lighthouse
Stražica lighthouse in 1990
LocationPrvić, Croatia
Coordinates44°56′00″N 14°46′05″E / 44.93324°N 14.76816°E / 44.93324; 14.76816
Tower
Constructed1875
Automated1974 Edit this on Wikidata
Height5 metres (16 ft)
ShapeSquare tower on roof of dwelling
Light
Focal height21 metres (69 ft)
Range9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)
CharacteristicFl W 6s Edit this on Wikidata

Stražica Lighthouse on the island of Prvić in the Adriatic Sea was built in 1875 and consists of a small stone house and a 5-metre (16 ft) tall lighthouse tower.[1] A crew of lightkeepers were stationed on the island until it was made fully automated in 1974. In 1993 the natural gas-powered system was replaced with solar panels and is today remotely controlled by Plovput, the state-owned company for maritime traffic which controls the entire network of Croatian lighthouses. Until 1974, the lighthouse crew were the only inhabitants of Prvić,[2] and until the early 2000s it was believed that Prvić held the distinction of being the largest uninhabited Croatian island,[3] but this was refuted when new measurements published in 2004 showed that the island of Žut is bigger by some 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi).[4]

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Svjetionik Rt Stražica" (in Croatian). Plovput.hr. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  2. ↑ Trinajstić, Mladen. "Svjetionik, nijemi svjedok nebrige". Novi list (in Croatian). Retrieved 10 June 2010.
  3. ↑ Rac, Krunoslav (September 2007). "Otok Prvić" (PDF). Eco Review (in Croatian). Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund. p. 76. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
  4. ↑ 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. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 2019-12-26.



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