Kvarner Gulf

44.914.6Koordinaten: 44 ° 54 '0 " N, 14 ° 36' 0" E

The Kvarner Bay (Croatian Kvarner, Italian Quarnero / Quarnaro / Carnaro, ancient German Quarnerobusen ), is a bay on the upper Adriatic Sea in Croatia.

It is located between the Istrian peninsula in the west and the Croatian coast in the east. The most important town on the Kvarner is today the city of Rijeka. Inhabited islands of the Kvarner Bay are Krk, Pag, Cres, Lošinj, Rab, Susak, Unije, Ilovik, Male and Vele Srakane. Its shores are numerous important and at the same time the oldest tourist destinations, such as the glamorous Opatija and Lovran. The Kvarnerland is also seen as the central room of the Croatian Croatian Primorje region (Croatian coast country) - a precise statement is unusual in this rich structure coastline. It forms with the Trieste province of Italy and the Italian part of Istria ' Venezia Giulia ', the Slovenian part of Istria coast country / Primorska, the Croatian part of Istria ( Istria County ) and the south in the Dalmatia the northeast shoreline of the Adriatic, and was with the former from the High Middle Ages to in the 20th century, referred to as part of the Habsburg monarchy littoral plain, the coastal region.

The Kvarner islands belong as the northernmost Croatian archipelago that stretches with the Montenegrin islands to the Albanian border.

The Kvarner bay itself is made up of the waters of Kvarner, Kvarneric and the Velebit Channel. As the " Kvarner " in the strict sense, the sea area between the Istrian peninsula and the islands of Cres and Unije is called. The Kvarnerić located between Cres and Lošinj on the west, and the islands of Krk and Rab on the eastern side. Between the islands of Krk and Rab and the mainland lies the Velebit Channel. This counts due to the borane - frequency and a local jet action by the Velebit mountain, the east against the domestic Balkan way has a distinctive notch, to the dangerous waters of the world.

A tourist specificity are located directly on the coast observation decks for viewing of tuna shoals, called here Tuneren.

• Bay in Croatia
• Bay in Europe
• Bay ( Adriatic Sea )
• Region in Europe
• Balkans
• Coastal Region of the Mediterranean