Komiža (pronounced [kɔ̌miʒa]) is a Croatian coastal town lying on the western coast of the island of Vis in the central part of the Adriatic Sea.

Situated in a deep bay, whose eastern shore abounds with large pebble beaches (Kamenica, Gusarica, Nova Pošta, Velo Žalo), Komiža offers excellent visitor opportunities: quality accommodations (hotels and apartments), and a number of cultural and historic sites, monasteries and fortresses.

The climate allows for Tropical and Mediterranean vegetation, including palms, carobs, olives, grapes and lemons.

Komiža is well known for its close proximity to the island of Biševo, which is visited by 10,000 tourists each year who come to see the unique Blue Grotto.

[citation needed] Biševo, in the early 1900s with a population of about 200 residents, was noted for bee-keeping and wild honey production.

The festival features fireworks, many types of traditional food, souvenir shops, ice cream stands, and a children's kayak race.

Generally the vines are sprayed once with insecticide and then blue stoned (copper sulfate) about four times during the growing season.

In the earliest days of the 20th century these intrepid men fished the fertile waters of Puget Sound.

By 1920 they were voyaging from their home ports of Everett, Seattle, Bellingham, Gig Harbor and Anacortes, on wooden vessels typically of no more than 60'.

Equipped with only a compass and often highly inaccurate charts to navigate by, they traveled to the abundant Alaskan salmon fishing grounds of Prince William Sound, Southeast Alaska and False Pass, on the edge of the Bering Sea.

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana is home to another group descended from Komižini fishermen who left Dalmatia over a century ago.