Klek is a

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in the

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located southwest of Neum,

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. It encloses the Bay of Neum, separating it from the larger

Bay of Mali Ston A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a na ...

and the

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peninsula. At the cape of peninsula, a few hundred meters from the shore, is a small islet as part of a

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consisting series of bare rocks appearing under the water table ( sh, hrid, hridina). It is called ''Lopata'', and at the tip of the reef there is a

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''Lopata''. Also at the very tip of the peninsula there is the '' Rep Kleka'' lighthouse The tip of the peninsula, known as ''Rep Kleka'' (also known as ''Ponta repa'' and ''Turski rep''), that lies directly across the eponymous village of Klek in

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, is disputed between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, who last negotiated its status in the 1999 Neum Agreement.

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