Tesla Monument
The island is home to the Tesla Monument which honors the Serbian-American inventor, Nikola Tesla. The statue was a given to the United States by the government of Yugoslavia in 1976. The author of the statue is Frano Krsinic (1897-1982), a renowned Yugoslav sculptor.
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