 Nightingales and Scops-owls can also be heard in abundance.Olive groves are also plentiful although many are uncultivated and overgrown.The peninsula also has a significant military history with its location guarding the entrance into the Boka Kotorska, which housed military ports at Tivat during the interbellum and the Cold War period (Yugoslav Navy) as well as in Kotor earlier during the Austro-Hungarian occupation (Austro-Hungarian Navy).