In the central part of the Croatian Adriatic, there is a separate and in many ways a special group of islands called Kornati. Because exceptional landscape beauty, interesting geomorphology, indented coastline, and especially the rich biodiversity of the marine ecosystem in 1980 greater part of the Kornati archipelago was declared a national park. Today Kornati National Park occupies an area of 220 km2 and includes 89 islands, islets and rocks with approximately 238 km of coastline. Despite this relatively large number of islands, the continental part of the park makes less than 1 / 4 the total area, while the rest is the marine ecosystem.