Klek (peninsula)

Peninsula of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Adriatic Sea

Klek

The tip of the peninsula seen from the mainland, with the Lopata islet (left) and larger landmass of Pelješac (background)

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Geography
Location| Adriatic Sea
Coordinates| 42°55′09″N 17°35′30″E﻿ / ﻿42.919224°N 17.591658°E﻿ / 42.919224; 17.591658
Archipelago| Neum-Klek
Administration

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Entity| Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton/županija| Herzegovina-Neretva
Municipality| Neum
Demographics
Population| ?

Klek is a peninsula in the Adriatic Sea located southwest of Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It encloses the Bay of Neum, separating it from the larger Bay of Mali Ston and the Pelješac peninsula.[1] At the cape of the peninsula, a few hundred meters from the shore, is a small islet as part of a reef consisting series of bare rocks appearing under the water table (Serbo-Croatian: hrid, hridina). It is called Lopata, and at the tip of the reef there is a lighthouse, also called Lopata. At the very tip of the peninsula, there is another lighthouse, called Rep Kleka.[2][3][4]

The tip of the peninsula, known as Rep Kleka (also known as Ponta repa and Turski rep), that lies directly across the eponymous village of Klek in Croatia, is disputed between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia; they last negotiated its status in the 1999 Neum Agreement.[5]

## See also

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* Veliki Školj
* Mali Školj
* List of lighthouses in Bosnia and Herzegovina

## References

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1. ^ Klemenčić 2000.
2. ^ "Granica općine Neum u Malostonskom zaljevu od 1974". infobiro.ba. Oslobođenje. 29 November 2005. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
3. ^ "Neum i granični problemi". www.hercegovina.info (in Croatian). 13 December 2012. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
4. ^ "Lighthouses of Bosnia and Herzegovina". www.ibiblio.org. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
5. ^ Arnaut 2014, pp. 160–164.

## Sources

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* Arnaut, Damir (2014). "Adriatic Blues: Delimiting the Former Yugoslavia's Final Frontier". In Clive H. Schofield; Seokwoo Lee; Moon-Sang Kwon (eds.). The Limits of Maritime Jurisdiction. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013). pp. 160–164\. ISBN 9789004262591.
* Klemenčić, Mladen (2000). "The border agreement between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina: The first but not the last" (pdf). International Boundaries Research Unit (in English and Serbo-Croatian) (Winter 1999-2000). Durham. Retrieved 5 February 2022.

## External links

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* Neum-Klek archipelago 12\. January 2022

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