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16s p o m e n i c im o n u m e n t sglavatA series of islets spreading to the northeast fromthe island Murter have quite unusual name - Prišnjak.Still, even more unusual is an authentic event thattook place some forty years ago. A lighthouse keeper’swife was terrified to find out that she was going togive birth to a child much sooner than she’d haveexpected. Her husband assisted her to the boat andrushed paddling in order to reach nearby town Murteras soon as possible. Yet, as the town was far, and achild well on his way, a labour started and a child wasborn in the boat. They named their newborn Jadran(which other name could they choose). Today he is amature man whose place of birth is quoted: Prišnjak- Murter!A lighthouse Stončica, erected on the northerncape of island Vis in 1865, was a witness to a navalbattle between Austrian and Italian armada, whichtook place a year later, few miles to the east. Austrianadmiral Teggethoff won the battle.Today an islet that hosts jet another lighthousenear Vis harbour is named Host bearing its name inhonour to a courageous and skilful young British captainof the battleship, William Host. Known as “YoungNelson”, he inflicted great casualties to the Napoleon’sfleet in front of island Vis in the first part of 1811.nymphs & sirensIt is uncertain who inhabited virgin cost of Pelješacpeninsula first? Some believe that it was ancientPelasi, and the other that in the Illyrian time Pelješacused to be called Hilida and that it was the veryplace of heroic Hercules. The geographer Skilaks fromKarijanda, as well as known historian and very first“journalist” in the World - Herodotus bear out the Illyrianorigin of Hercules. Throughout this contrastinglandscape, where mouflons and chamois freely springabout the hillslopes, three cypress trees have spreadshade onto the lighthouse Lovišće, Pelješac’s mostwest oriented cape.Lighthouse Struga is a proud witness of two unusualAdriatic records. First was hauled in by thefishermen. It was a large lobster weighting some 18kilograms! This event took place in the later part ofthe previous century. Fishermen have carefully packedlobster and sent it to Vienna, where it was broughtonto the table of the emperor Franz Joseph. Gladly,the emperor returned a favour by forwarding a chestbox filled with sugar and coffee, which the locals administeredfairly and squarely amongst themselves.Half a century later, the other record talks about a 45kilogram coral which lucky hunters wrenched belowStrug from the cliff which subsides horizontally morethan 50 meters below sea level. Neither earlier norlater on did anyone wrench such coral tree.Maybe all of these stories are not authentic, butthey certainly awake person’s inquisitiveness. Anyway,we shall never know what is really possible inthe remoteness of the deep sea, where loneliness candrive you mad.This is familiar to our lighthouse keepers, especiallywhen the nymphs & sirens come to cure themor to trigger their insanity....