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                                                                  Osoršćica, island Lošinj
            The island area with its distinctive   Lake Vrana on the island of Cres, at
            Mediterranean  climate  consists  of  two   about 13 m above sea level, is a unique
            chains of Kvarner islands: the western   hydrographic  phenomenon  in  the
            one with Cres and Lošinj and several   Adriatic area. It has an area of 5.5 km2
            smaller  islands, and  the eastern  one   and it is 74 m deep (the deepest part of
            encompassing Krk and Rab and some   the lake is 60 m below sea level) and it
            smaller uninhabited islands between   contains more than 200 million m3 of
            them.  The  largest  islands  are  Krk  and   extremely clean drinking water which
            Cres - 405.8 km2 each, Krk being wider,   supplies the towns on Cres and Lošinj
            and Cres being longer.              islands.













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