Zavratnica is a 900 m long narrow inlet located at the foot of the Velebit Mountains, in the northern part of the

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, 1 km south of

Jablanac Jablanac is a village in Lika-Senj County, Croatia, located on the Adriatic Sea underneath the Velebit mountain, overlooking the island of Rab. The village used to have a ferry port that connected it to Rab, but that moved up the coast to Stinica ...

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. Regarded as one of the major tourist attractions of the northern coastal area because of its beauty, Zavratnica was designated a protected landscape in 1964.

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Zavratnica is 50–150 m wide, with a narrow entrance, and up to 100 m sides which are very steep. It only resembles a

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Förden and East Jutland Fjorde, Germany, ...

. Its geological origin is very different from the formation of fjords. A mountain stream became flooded as the surface of the sea rose ( transgression after the last ice age), and so a

cove A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks, or recesses in a coast are o ...

was formed quite similar in appearance to a fjord.Radovan Radovinovič, ''The Croatian Adriatic Tourist Guide'', pg. 140, Zagreb (1999),

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