Palagruža
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thumb|right|Vela Palagruža and the lighthouse Palagruža (; ) is a small Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. It is uninhabited, except by lighthouse staff and occasional summer tourists. Palagruža can be reached only by a chartered motorboat, requiring a journey of several hours from nearby islands like Lastovo, Korčula, or Vis. It is administratively part of the municipality of Komiža.
Key facts
- Lighthouse.qid
- Q28376003
- Lighthouse.image_name
- Lighthouse at Palagruža.jpg
- Lighthouse.location
- Palagruža Island, Croatia
- Lighthouse.yearbuilt
- 1875
- Lighthouse.construction
- stone tower
- Lighthouse.shape
- cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern rising at the center of 2-story keeper's house
- Lighthouse.marking
- unpainted tower, white lantern
- Lighthouse.range
- main: reserve:
- Lighthouse.characteristic
- Fl W 17.5s.
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thumb|right|Vela Palagruža and the lighthouse Palagruža (; ) is a small Croatian archipelago in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. It is uninhabited, except by lighthouse staff and occasional summer tourists. Palagruža can be reached only by a chartered motorboat, requiring a journey of several hours from nearby islands like Lastovo, Korčula, or Vis. It is administratively part of the municipality of Komiža.
==Etymology== The place is known in Italian as Pelagosa, derived from Ancient Greek Pelagousae (, 'sea (islands)'). This is the source of the current Croatian name, as well as of the name of pelagosite. Gruž also means 'ballast' in Croatian, and the term is therefore well known in two ways to seafarers. The islands are also associated with the Greek mythology Diomedia or Islands of Diomedes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Palagruža” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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