Galešnjak
Galešnjak is located in the Pašman Canal of the Adriatic, between the islands of Pašman and the town of Turanj on mainland Croatia. It is one of the world's few naturally occurring heart-shaped objects.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tristan Surtel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Croatia
- Also known as: “Otocic Galesnjak” and “Otok Galesnjak”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barotul and Pašman.
Barotul
Village
Barotul is a settlement in the Municipality of Pašman in Croatia. In 2021, its population was 83.
Pašman
Photo: Coralie Ferreira, CC BY 2.5.
Pašman is an island with a surface area of 60 square kilometers, separated from the mainland by the Pašman Channel, which is strewn all over with many islets.
Galešnjak
- Categories: coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Zadar County, Croatia, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.97854° or 43° 58′ 43″ northLongitude
15.38333° or 15° 23′ eastElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
8FMQX9HM+C8OpenStreetMap ID
way 8838220OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3200743Wikidata ID
Q2123434
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Galešnjak” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزيرة الحب”
- Bulgarian: “Галешняк”
- Cebuano: “Otočić Galešnjak”
- Chinese: “加莱什尼亚克岛”
- Croatian: “Galešnjak”
- Dutch: “Galešnjak”
- French: “Galešnjak”
- German: “Galešnjak”
- Greek: “Γκαλεσνιάκ”
- Italian: “Galešnjak”
- Italian: “Galesno”
- Japanese: “ガレシュニャク”
- Japanese: “ガレシュニャク島”
- Polish: “Galešnjak”
- Russian: “Галесняк”
- Russian: “Галешняк”
- Serbian: “Галешњак”
- Slovenian: “Galešnjak”
- Swedish: “Galešnjak”
- Swedish: “Otočić Galešnjak”
- Thai: “เกาะกาเล็ชญัก”
- Thai: “เกาะกาแล็ชญัก”
- Turkish: “Galešnjak”
- Ukrainian: “Галешняк”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Galešnjak”. Photo: Tristan Surtel, CC BY-SA 4.0.