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This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago

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This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint!

Known as Bavljenac in Croatia, the island is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago and is famous for being seen from the air like a human fingerprint.

The islands are indeed uninhabited, but these fingerprint structures are human-built stone wall structures.

The entire island is only 0.14 square kilometers, but it is 23 kilometers to connect all the stone walls on the island.

These stone walls were built in the 18th century, almost as tall as an adult's waist, and were actually built for better farming.

Because of the abundant sunshine on the island, it was developed into agricultural land very early, and all the native vegetation on the island was cut down and then crops such as grapes, figs and citrus were planted, and the stone walls were used to protect crops from the sea breeze from the Mediterranean.

In fact, not only Bavljenac is filled with stone walls, but the islands next to it are basically the same, but the geographical structure of Bavljenac is more interesting, so it is very famous.

In the beginning, people did not live on the island, but only developed the land of the island, but it is clear that this form of island development is not a good idea.

So now the crops on these islands are long gone, only the stone walls remain.

In 2018, Bavljenac became part of UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, which is now protected.

This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago
This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago
This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago
This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago
This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago
This uninhabited island is like a fingerprint! This island in Croatia, known as Bavljenac, is one of the 249 islands in the Šibenik archipelago

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