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	Ekokampanja 'Za Velebit!'
		Planina Velebit je i europski značajan migracijski koridor rijetke i zaštićene faune, tako da je za cjelokupan velebitski prostor predviđena stroga zaštita.
		Velebit je štitio i čuvao svoga čovjeka, branio i hranio njegovu djecu, za slobodu zlatnu i kao ljubav vječnu!
		Jer Velebit je ponos i prostranstvo, ljepota i nadahnuće, radost i snaga!
	velebit.planine.org (15525 words)

	Velebit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Velebit begins in the northwest near Senj with the Vratnik mountain pass and ends 145 km to the southeast near the source of the Zrmanja river reasonably near Knin.
		Velebit as a whole is a nature park, from which two national parks have been carved out: Paklenica and Sjeverni Velebit.
		Velebit is home to Degenia velebitica, an endemic and protected species of plant in the mustard family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Velebit (358 words)

	National Parks - North Velebit - Croatia
		Velebit is the longest mountain range in Croatia; its northern part lies between Senjska Draga and a deep ravine called Brusanka.
		The Velebit ridge has a large number of relief, botanical and landscape values; scenic rocky landscapes are interwoven with woods and high-rising peaks, from which unique views are offered.
		The most beautiful hiking trail on Velebit is Premužić's trail with wonderful vista points, this trail leads hikers to the magnificent karst formations known as Rožanski Kukovi, which, together with Hajdučki Kukovi, has been designated as a nature reserve, due to their specific natural features.
	www.croatica.net /2/nparkovi/nparkovi(8).asp (260 words)

	Parks of Nature - Velebit Mountain - Croatia
		Velebit, the longest mountain range in Croatia; stretching from the cove of Senjska Draga to the upper course of the Zrmanja river, in the total length of about 145 km.
		Northern Velebit does not have the shape of a typical mountain ridge or crest; it consists of several ranges of ridges and crests, separated from each other by deep karst ravines and valleys.
		Sotheast of Sveto Brdo, the massif of Velebit is lower.
	www.croatica.net /2/pprirode/pprirode(6).asp (253 words)

	General information
		Velebit has earned this place in the spiritual relief of Croatia owing to its geographic position, its peculiar features and the place it has in the hearts and minds of the people.
		The saddles diagonally divide its giant belly and represent the traditional division of the mountain range into: the northern area (between Vratnik and Veliki Alan), the central area (between Veliki Alan and Baske Ostarije), the southern area (between Ostarije and Mali Alan) and the southeastern area (between Veliki Alan and the upper Zrmanja valley).
		Inspite of the fact that it leaves the impression of a colossal mountain, Velebit is not particularly high.
	www.pp-velebit.hr /eng/general_information.htm (283 words)

	Sjeverni (North) Velebit Croatia National Park Croatia
		Velebit is an untamed mountainous ridge which looms as large in the Croatian mentality as it does on the ground.
		Part of the attraction of Velebit is the variety of different landscapes hidden in small niches of the reserve.
		Velebit - Village Krasno in Eurovillage Project : Krasno, a village located on the high northern slopes of the Velebit mountain chain, is a unique small medieval predecessor place that in the past few years has drawn growing attention from hikers, cyclists, skiers and pilgrims.
	www.find-croatia.com /nationalparks/velebit.html (879 words)

	Velebit Mountain - UNESCO World Heritage Centre
		Velebit is the largest mountain in Croatia and is a part of a bigger mountain chain of Dinarides stretching form the Alps, across Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to Albania.
		Velebit is typical karst mountain, composed largely of carbonate rocks.
		Velebit mountain passes were very important communication and trading routes between the coast and the inland.
	whc.unesco.org /en/tentativelists/2013 (1565 words)

	Croatia Tourism - Northern Velebit (Croatia Tourism) @ Croatia Tourism
		In the near vicinity of Zaviæan is the Velebit Botanical Garden, situated in a deep and wide karst sink hole at the bottom of which snow persists even in summer.
		Velebit is a veritable treasury of Croatian mountain flora.
		One of the greatest values of Velebit and Zaviæan are the truly unique views, and where one can, simply with a turn of the head, observe the sea and its islands on the one hand, and the inland forests on the other.
	www.gradpula.com /c5561/croatia_tourism_-_northern_velebit (645 words)

	culturenet.hr - Panorama - Art - Croatian cultural heritage – monuments and sites - Istra, Kvarner, Gorski Kotar and ...
		A dry structure descends from the hill of Panas to Velebit - a border between Illyrian tribes of Ortoplines and Begios with an inscription of Regent Dolabela.
		KARLOBAG, a town and port in the Velebit Channel, in the region of the Velebit slopes, opposite the island of Pag.
		Above it is the mausoleum of Marko Ožegović Barlabaševački (1839), of a circular ground-plan, and behind it, in a cave, is the tombstone of the constructor of Velebit roads, Josip Kajetan Knežić (1848), shaped as a sarcophagus.
	www.culturenet.hr /v1/english/panorama.asp?id=92 (1858 words)

	Zadar County - Zadar County Tourist Office
		Velebit Mountain is the most compelling representative of the Dinaric Range, naturally dividing the Mediterranean from the continental part of Croatia.
		It stretches 145 kilometres in length, and due to the wealth of its flora and fauna, as well as its unusual relief, Velebit was awarded an International certificate in 1978 by UNESCO, thus including the park into the International biosphere reserves, as part of the scientific project "Man and the Biosphere".
		The National Parks of Paklenica and Northern Velebit are today part of the Velebit area, which was proclaimed a Nature Park in 1981.
	www.zadar.hr /English/Atrakcije/Velebit.aspx (95 words)

	Velebit Mountain - UNESCO World Heritage Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All types of karst phenomena as well as their transitional stages can be observed on Velebit Mountain, both on the surface and in the underground.
		In Velebit area about 90 different habitat types, according to the CORINE classification, can be distinguished, some 20 of them in Paklenica National park alone.
		Velebit has very high biological diversity, due to very diverse habitats but also to the fact that some part of the mountain acted as refugia for numerous species during glaciations in the past.
	whc.unesco.org /fr/listesindicatives/2013 (1565 words)

	Croatia Tourism - Velebit (Croatia Tourism) @ Croatia Tourism
		VELEBIT - CROATIA’S MOUNTAIN KING With a total area of almost 2000 km2 the Velebit Nature Park is the largest protected area in Croatia and larger than all the country’s other protected areas combined.
		Among Velebit’s countless beauties there are various relief karst forms, such as the unusual figure of Stapin, a vertical, 100-metre high rounded obelisk.
		Although the most valuable element of the natural heritage of Velebit is protected within two national parks located in the northern and southern regions of the mountain, there are many natural sights in other of its areas, too.
	www.gradpula.com /c5560/croatia_tourism_-_velebit (524 words)

	Velebit \| THG Lexikon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Der Velebit ist ein Gebirgszug an der Küstenregion Kroatiens.
		Der Velebit ist an der der Lika zugewandten Ostseite vorwiegend dicht Bewaldet.
		Aufgrund seiner zahlreichen Höhlen ist der Velebit ein Paradies für Höhlenforscher.
	www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Velebit (361 words)

	Lika-Senj County - a constant attraction - Lika - Podgorje - Gacka - Pag
		Most valuable areas of north and central Velebit are protected within the category of strict and special reserves.
		In 1999 Sjeverni Velebit (North Velebit) National Park - 109 km2 - was established in northern regions of the mountain range.
		Many smaller caves and pits and a number of important geomorphologic objects (Kiza, Tulove grede, kuk Stapina etc.) and hydrological objects (the spring and course of the Zrmanja etc.) must not be overlooked either.
	www.lickosenjska.com /index.en.php?page=velebit (498 words)

	Mountain hut Alan (Velebit, Croatia)
		The road is paved up to 15,5 km and it is of rather good quality later as a stone road.
		It is at the same time a sort of division mark between Northern and Middle Velebit.
		Further the road goes steeply down the hill through dense wood and to the mountain meadow Petrašica (33 km), and about 200 m away it arrives at the longitudinal Velebit road, and then on the right to the asphalt road in Štirovača for some 2,5 km.
	www.pkalan.com /pvozilom_eng.php (784 words)

	Lika-Senj County - a constant attraction - Lika - Podgorje - Gacka - Pag
		The Northern Velebit National Park was designated on 09th June 1999., while the Public Institution was founded on 16th September 2001, according to the Parliament's firman.
		The area was designated a national park due to its richness of carst phenomena, outstanding biodiversity and exquisitly beautiful nature on a relatively small area.
		Inside the reserve there is a widely known Velebit Botany Garden, founded by the pharmacology professor Fran Kusan in 1967.
	www.lickosenjska.com /index.en.php?page=sjevernivelebit (210 words)

	Croatia - Kvarner & Gorski Kotar - Rijeka, Opatija, Ika, Icici, Moscenicka Draga
		In the middle of this whirl is the town of Senj - an old Illyrian and Roman settlement, then a fortified town of the Frankopan family, and later a free king’s town in which, towards the end of the 15 th century, a Glagolitic printing house was already in function.
		The attachment of the Adriatic Sea and the Velebit Mountains is complete at this point where the mountains virtually descend into the sea.
		The seaside of Velebit is another typically Adriatic phenomenon- diverse and full of natural, sometimes even atypical peculiarities in one small area such as the Bay of Zavratnica, cut into the land almost a kilometre, near to Jablanac.
	www.vacationincroatia.net /kvarner.htm (1642 words)

	SummitPost - Velebit -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
		Velebit is one of the world’s undiscovered natural treasures.
		Because SE Velebit is much lowers than rest of the mountain, its first step is the only step as it rises from lower plateau all the way to the highest peaks of particular part or the mountain or forms main seaboard ridge.
		Velebit channel is in huge cloud of salt dust that wind cuts from the waves.
	www.summitpost.org /area/range/151564/velebit.html (11580 words)

	Business: Wait drags on for settlement check
		Velebit, 63, is among thousands of former NationsBank customers still waiting for the payout from a $30-million class-action settlement reached with the bank in 1997, before it became Bank of America.
		Living on $544 a month in Social Security, Velebit was counting on the settlement check to arrive by November when his first $568 monthly payment was due.
		Before leaving for a foreclosure hearing Tuesday, Velebit predicted he is within 45 days of losing his house.
	www.sptimes.com /News/061500/news_pf/Business/Wait_drags_on_for_set.shtml (917 words)

	WWF - Integrating plans for a fractured landscape: Velebit, Croatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is a deeply divided karst landscape of bare limestone crags interspersed with forested valleys and depressions, and honeycombed with caves, springs and rivers such as the Lika which run at least partially underground.
		Velebit rises from the Adriatic coast where beech forests mix with oak and elm on the slopes; between the high peaks, juniper and pine grow in protected valleys; beech forests return as the land slopes inland.
		As part of the Velebit Green Belt Project, ZA have stopped a cement factory inside the belt and achieved the re-routing of a Zabreg-Split highway that would have cut through the Velebit forest and reduced its integrity.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/mediterranean/about/med_freshwater/our_work/velebit_croatia/index.cfm (505 words)

	Velebit - Croatian National Tourist Board
		With its area of almost 2,000 km2, the Velebit Nature Park is the largest protected area of Croatia, larger than all other protected areas taken together.
		Within the Park, there is a series of smaller protected areas, including two national parks: Northern Velebit and Paklenica, and the strict reserves of Hajdučki and Rožanski kukovi.
		On this magnificent mountain that in its diversity, unique relief and richness of plant and animal life is one of the most significant in Europe, there is a whole series of natural sights ranking among the highest values Croatia has to offer.
	www.croatia.hr /English/Destinacije/Destinacija.aspx?idDestination=4870 (125 words)

	Paklenica - Croatian national park, article - borislavdopudja.net
		She said something that made me think during the days I spent in Paklenica, walking around the slopes of Velebit: "Paklenica is peculiar, different from other national parks.
		Photo is taken from the highest peak of the Velebit (1757 m) in 9:31 h - exactly when the sun falls down.
		Velebit is like a giant wno sleeps over the day.
	www.borislavdopudja.net /en/writings/paklenica (2138 words)

	mountainwilderness.org - Ski resorts and glaciers - Velebit campaign still on the tracks
		At Velebit's peak area there have been build about 500 km of logging roads allowing illegal buildings, poaching intensification, illegal forest cutting, new waste dumps, the growth of off-road tourism and increased danger from the fire because there is neither care nor control over those parts.
		In the area of North Velebit they plan to build a tourist cableway Velike Brisnice-Zavian, as well as Krasno-Krasnarska Pljeivica, and nature's priceless locality of Krasnarska lakes is recognized as one of the best skiing plateaus in Croatia, and there are not many of its kind in the world.
		The main activities of the national eco-campaign For Velebit are currently carried out in the form of a recently declared Velebit Monitoring and the editing of Velebit news on the web pages of the campaign.
	mountainwilderness.org /index.php?rub=173&art=30&lg=it (1737 words)

	Ecological Campaign 'For Velebit Mountain!'
		Der Velebit wurde schon 1978 mit der Urkunde der UNESCO zu den internationalen Reservaten der Biosphäre eingeordnet.
		Die Mehrheit dieser Aktivitäten wird in der Zusammenarbeit mit der lokalen Bevölkerung, den Verwaltungsbehörden und Institutionen auf der regionalen und staatlichen Ebene durchgeführt, auch mit den fachlichen und wissenschaftlichen Institutionen und Einzelpersonen durch verschiedene affirmative Programme, Projekte und Aktionen.
		Die Hauptaktivitäten der nationalen Umweltkampagne Für den Velebit spielen sich zur Zeit in der Form des unlängst erklärten Velebit Monitoriums und der Gestaltung der Velebitnachrichten unter die Webseite: http://www.velebit.planine.org.
	velebit.planine.org /index_de.php (1019 words)

	The Environmental Literacy Council - GeoQuiz: Velebit Mountains
		The Velebit Mountains are the largest mountain range in Croatia and the location of the world's deepest hole.
		Bordered by land on one side and the Adriatic Sea on the other, the Velebit Mountains are home to a diverse number of plant and animal species.
		This webpage is the official website for the Velebit National Park in Croatia and includes maps and photographs of the mountain as well as information about the flora, fauna, and activities available at the park.
	www.enviroliteracy.org /article.php/1266.php (378 words)

	Cave explorers discover deep pit in Croatia - Science - MSNBC.com
		The cave, in Croatia's mountainous Velebit region, has a steady, weaving descent of 203 feet before it takes a direct vertical plunge of 1,693 feet through the ground, said Ana Sutlovic Baksic, a researcher at the Velebit Speleological Society.
		At the foot of the Velebit cave are small ponds and streams, including one of the largest known colonies of subterranean leeches, Sutlovic Baksic said.
		The Velebit region is Croatia's largest mountain range, attracting speleologists, botanists and hikers from around the world.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5659995 (371 words)

	Northern Velebit National Park
		The park includes the most pristine areas of the northern part of the Velebit range which runs parallel to the Adriatic coast.
		The northern Velebit is the least accessible of Croatia's national parks.
		The northern Velebit national park office (tel 053 851 227) is in Krasno.
	www.croatiatraveller.com /National%20Parks/NorthernVelebit.htm (183 words)

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