Krk

Island was part of the Kvarner group of islands located in the northern Adriatic, between the Istrian peninsula in the west and the Croatian coast to the east. Surrounded by Vinodol Canal to the east, the Rijeka Bay on the northwest and the southwest side Kvarnerić. Triangular in shape, or more specifically an irregular rectangle shape.

219.12 km long coast makes numerous bays (Voz Sepen, Beli Kamik Čavlena, Taverns, Stara Baska, tweak ..) bays (Omisalj, Krk, saline), dear (Punat, Baska, Zala) and natural harbors ( Peškera Malinska, Lagdimor, Vela and Mala Luka, Kijac). The result is a high coefficient of craggy coastline of the island of 2.6.
Cove Tavern on the southwest, near Punta.

The coast of the island in the Bay is low and affordable, in Kvarnerić partly low and indented with bays, among which is the largest Puntarska dear. The longest coastlines, she Vino-channel, can be divided into three parts. South is very steep where the peaks of over 400 meters almost vertically into the sea. This is an area of ​​karst zones where the griffon vulture and declared ornithological reserve. Given that it is almost completely inaccessible, not populated. The middle section is less steep and more accessible, especially around the peaceful bays. The northern part is provided between the bays and coves Slivanjska Voz. That part is called Košćera. There is a steep coast again and completely inaccessible, but is significantly lower than those in the southern part of the eastern coast.
"Sometimes the greatest"

Krk island has an area of ​​405.78 km ². Until 1993rd The Krk is considered the largest Adriatic island. At the beginning of the year, Geodetic Institute modern computer measurements has received information that the islands of Krk and Cres completely identical to the surface, which is in the public caused a sensation because Krk considered greater than Cres for about 5 km ², and because it seemed unlikely that two adjacent islands have exactly the same surface. The reason that the decades misrepresented the surfaces of these two islands is that the measurement of surfaces first and last time any 1823rd and since then the data were only transcribed.

However, given that the level of the Adriatic Sea gradually lifted, and the island Cres are steeper than those on the island, it is expected that in the near future Cres become the largest island in the Adriatic.