Plaka cape is a monument of the nature (1947). Plaka is a low cape on the South coast of Crimea on the east from Ayu-Dag. It is an original, resembling an owl in profile in its shape, fungiform rock. The magmatic body of the cape is covered by black belts of gigantic stone shells made of fossil clays. The abrupt slopes are run through by numerous cracks. Against the cape in the sea there is a group of small islands of the same origin, they are called Bird's rocks. In the Middle Ages a fortification and a light-house post Lambas (from Greek "a candle, torch, lamp") mentioned by ancient geographers has settled on Plaka cape.
