Veliki Školj

Veliki Školj

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Geography
Location	Adriatic Sea
Coordinates	42.90156°N 17.62209°E / 42.90156; 17.62209
Archipelago	Neum-Klek
Administration
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Entity	Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Canton/županija	Herzegovina-Neretva
Municipality	Neum
Demographics
Population	0

Veliki Školj is uninhabited islet in the Bay of Mali Ston, located in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and with the nearby islet of Mali Školj makes the only two Bosnia and Herzegovina's islands in the Adriatic Sea.^[1][2]

The temporary regime of the sea border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was determined in 1999. The Neum Agreement on the temporary border was signed by Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović, and has not been ratified due to the emergence of the controversy surrounding the ownership of these two islands and the tip of the Klek peninsula. Croatia disputes the validity of the agreement and claims it as its own territory.^[1]

Sources

• 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.

References

1. Arnaut 2014, pp. 160–164.
2. Zoran Šagolj (9 July 2017). "Vlasnik spornih otoka u Malostonskom zaljevu: Mi jesmo Hrvati, ali Mali i Veliki školj pripadaju BiH. Dubrovačka republika to je područje prodala za svoju slobodu Turcima, a naši preci su ga kupili". slobodnadalmacija.hr (in Croatian). Slobodna Dalmacija. Retrieved 24 July 2022.