Zavratnica

Zavratnica is a long narrow inlet located at the foot of the Velebit Mountains, in the northern part of the Adriatic Sea, south of Jablanac, Croatia. 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.

Description

Zavratnica is wide, with a narrow entrance, and up to sides which are very steep. It only resembles a fjord. Its geological origin is very different from the formation of fjords. A mountain stream became flooded as the surface of the sea rose, and so a cove was formed quite similar in appearance to a fjord.