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Number: 738
Value: 3.50 HRK
Design: Orsat Franković and Ivana Vučić, designers, Zagreb
Photo: Andrija Carli
Size: 29.82 x 48.28 mm
Paper: white 102 g, gummed
Perforation: Comb,14
Technique: Multicolored Offsetprint
Printed by: Zrinski d.d., Čakovec
Date of issue: 11/9/2009
Quantity: 100.000


Lighthouse Stražica is situated on a north cape of Prvić island, the east side of the “portus Senia” . Stražica was built in 1875.


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Stražica Lighthouse Stražica is situated on a north cape of Prvić island, the east side of the “portus Senia” . Stražica was built in 1875. On the north side encompassed by Velebit channel, on the south by Grgur channel, and on the west by “portus Senia” and Baščanska draga. A distance between a lighthouse Stražica and Baška on the island of Krk is two nautical miles. A lighthouse facility is a medium size single story house made of stone from which rises a tower of the lighting device incorporated in the walls of a facade. A size of a ground floor is139 square meters. There is a fenced yard laid with paving stone. Electric generating unit is supplying electricity and there is also a water storage tank. Near the facility is a medium size pier for accommodating vessels. There have been numerous stories and anecdotes repeated over and over again about a lighthouse and the surrounding due to the influence of a limy slag deposits formed on the natural environment creating an exotic atmosphere. Extensive aggregations of giltheads often occur in autumn in the sea around a rock nearby the lighthouse, and a rocky seafloor and strong sea currents represent natural protection from over fishing.

Number: LIGHTHOUSES
Type: P
Description:   The stamps have been issued in 10-stamp sheetlets; there is also a First Day Cover (FDC).
Date: 11/9/2009

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