In light of maritime history and relations between coastal towns and hinterland, the article presents the inhabitants of the Karst Plateau and wider karst area, as well as the descendants of emigrants from the Karst who had close ties to the sea-either through occasional or daily journeying between the karst landscape and coastal towns, or by finding employment aboard merchant or navy ships and in maritime institutions abroad. The paper also briefly presents those Karst natives who have, each in their own field, made sure that the ties between the sea on the one hand and the Karst and its people on the other will never sink into oblivion.