September 16, 2019 – When I moved to Hvar in 2003, little did I know that I was moving to the lost continent of Greater Adria.
They are the jewels of Croatian tourism, home to millions of unforgettable holiday memories each year, and some of the most beautiful places in Europe. But were the thousand-plus islands in Croatia’s Adriatic Sea always islands? Apparently not, according to Forbes Magazine, and not only that – they were once part of the lost continent of Greater Adria.
Have you been to Greater Adria? If you’ve ever vacationed in the Mediterranean region–specifically, Italy, Turkey, Greece or Croatia–the chances are you’ve stepped foot on the last traces of a string of islands that stretched from what is now the Alps to Iran.
A ’lost continent’ that broke off from the supercontinent Gondwana hundreds of millions of years ago, traces how Greater Adria have been found and mapped for the first time by geologists from Utrecht, Oslo, and Zürich.
Read the full Forbes article here.
And now take a 240-million-year tour of the changes which led to the existence of Hvar and other Croatian islands.
