The Cape Planka (, ''Punta Planka'') is a cape of

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n shore of the

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located southeast of village of

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in the

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. The cape is the most prominent point of land along the

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n shore. It represents a geographic and

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boundary of the northern and the southern Adriatic often characterised by strong sea currents and swells as weather systems from the north and the south come in contact. There is a navigational beacon at the cape. In

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, the cape was named after

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who said to have sailed to that point of the coast. The cape is known as a hazardous point in navigation and there are several shipwrecks in the vicinity. There is a legend of a miracle attributed to the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tragurium and later a Christian saint, John of Trogir. He is said to have saved

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from death in a shipwreck off the Cape Planka by walking on the surface of the sea. A votive church has been completed to commemorate the miracle on the cape in 1324. The Cape Planka was the southernmost point of the eastern Adriatic coast promised to the

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by the

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during the

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through the 1915 Treaty of London in return for Italian entry into the war.

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