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  Goli Otok | |
| Etymology | Croatian: goli otok, lit. 'barren island' |
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| Geography | |
| Adjacent to | Adriatic Sea |
| Area | 4.54 km2 (1.75 sq mi)[1] |
| Administration | |
Croatia | |
| County | Primorje-Gorski Kotar |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 0 |
Goli Otok (pronounced [ɡôliː ǒtok]; lit. 'Barren Island'; Italian: Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison which was in use when Croatia was part of Yugoslavia.[2][3] The prison was in operation between 1949 and 1989.[4]
The island is located in the northern Adriatic Sea just off the coast of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, Croatia with an area of approximately 4.5 square kilometers (1.7 sq mi). Exposed to strong bora winds, particularly in the winter, the island's surface is almost completely devoid of vegetation, giving Goli Otok (literally, 'barren island' in Croatian) its name. It is also known as the "Croatian Alcatraz" because of its island location and high security.[5]
- ^ 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. 9 (1). Zadar: 5–32. doi:10.15291/geoadria.127. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
- ^ Žižek, Slavoj (2009). The Parallax View. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 288.
Goli otok ... a notorious Communist concentration camp
- ^ Almond, Mark (1994). Europe's Backyard War: The War in the Balkans. London: Mandarin. p. 158.
The island concentration camp of Goli Otok ...
- ^ Dežman, Jože (2006). The Making of Slovenia. Ljubljana: National Museum of Contemporary History. p. 140.
the concentration camp on Goli otok established in 1949
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