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I took this picture of my own feet just to show how clear the Adriatic sea really is.
Here are a few facts about these crystal waters.

The name has existed since the antiquity; in Latin it was Mare Hadriaticum. In modern languages, it is Mare Adriatico in Italian, Deti Adriatik in Albanian, Jadransko morje in Slovenian, and Jadransko more in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian.

The name, derived from the town of Adria (or Hadria), belonged originally only to the upper portion of the sea (Herodotus vi. 127, vii. 20, ix. 92; Euripides, Hippolytus, 736), but was gradually extended as the Syracusan colonies gained in importance.

The Adriatic extends northwest from 40° to 45° 45' N., with an extreme length of about 480 miles (770 km). It has a mean breadth of about 100 miles (160 km), although the Strait of Otranto, through which it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45-55 nautical miles wide (85-100 km).

Moreover, the chain of islands which fringes the northern part of the eastern shore reduces the extreme breadth of open sea in this part to 90 miles. Its total surface area is about 60,000 square miles (160,000 km²).

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