The truth behind the image is the huge 'fingerprint' between the vast ocean

Looking down from above, the island looks like a giant fingerprint with vivid vertical lines.

The small island in question is called Baljenac or Bavljenac . Baljenac is the "member" of the Sibenik Islands in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of beautiful Croatia. With an area of ​​only about 1.4 km ² , Baljenac is one of the most mentioned tourist destinations recently.

Baljenac has a distorted oval, its surface is covered with a lot of dry stone edges. So when you sit down from the plane looking down, people will be surprised by how small this beautiful island looks like a giant fingerprint with extremely vivid horizontal lines.

Looking down from above, the island looks like a giant fingerprint with vivid vertical lines.

Regarding the stone "veins" on the island, one can explain in detail the historical records left.

Like many other Western European countries such as Ireland, England or Scotland, in most of Croatia's rural and coastal areas, to mark neighboring land or agricultural areas, local people have "build" so low stone walls to "assert their sovereignty ".

In fact, these are rocky shores built by Croatian farmers.

Called construction but in fact do not have enough conditions to buy cement to make mortar, they thought of a way to stack stones into a solid block. This practice has been used for a very long time in history, and today remains such traces.

Speaking of this method, many people will assume that Croatian farmers are short-sighted, but on the contrary, this is a very smart way to make use of the land. This stems from Croatia's natural conditions.

This small island with this stunning landscape is like a giant fingerprint with extremely vivid horizontal lines.

Most of the country's coastline is characterized by limestone topography so farmers do not have agricultural land."The hard way" , to overcome this difficulty, local farmers have devised a way to separate the rock from the soil, and to save the cost of transporting this stone, they have come up with an idea that is to use they are to "shore up" . This is called a double job.

The total length of these rocks is up to 23km.

Although Baljenac's length was only over half a kilometer, the total length of these rocks was up to 23km.

Currently, the Croatian government is trying to push UNESCO to put Baljenac and the elaborate stone walls on the island on the list of world cultural heritage.