Stražica Lighthouse

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]

Stražica Lighthouse
Stražica lighthouse in 1990
Stražica Lighthouse
LocationPrvić, Croatia
Coordinates44.93324°N 14.76816°E / 44.93324; 14.76816
Year first constructed1875
Automated1974 
Tower shapeSquare tower on roof of dwelling
Tower height5 metres (16 ft)
Focal height21 metres (69 ft)
Range9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi)
CharacteristicFl W 6s 
Admiralty numberE2887
NGA number12460
ARLHS numberCRO-147

See also

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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