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Village in Estonia Village in Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
Letipea
Village
Letipea lighthouseLetipea lighthouse
Letipea is located in EstoniaLetipeaLetipeaLocation in Estonia
Coordinates: 59°32′50″N 26°35′56″E / 59.54722°N 26.59889°E / 59.54722; 26.59889
Country Estonia
County Lääne-Viru County
Municipality Viru-Nigula Parish
Population
 • Total17

Letipea is a village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, northern Estonia. It is located on the Letipea cape (Letipea neem) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland about 6 km northeast of the town of Kunda. Letipea has a population of 17 (as of 1 January 2013).

On 8 August 1976, a conflict between resting workers and drunk Soviet border guards took place in Letipea, resulting in the death of 8 people, with 18 more being injured.

Letipea Landscape Conservation Area (area 608.8 ha) was founded on 30 January 1992. It was proposed by Marek Vahula and others in 3 days, as a bird reserve instead of a building plan of the port of Kunda. Since 2009, it has been a possible location for the Estonian nuclear power station.

Letipea Ehalkivi

See also: Glacial erratic boulders of Estonia

Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is Estonia's biggest pegmatite granite boulder, at the tip of the Letipea peninsula. It is the largest erratic boulder in the glaciation region of North Europe. It measures 7 meters in height, a circumference of 48.2 m, a volume of 930 m, and a mass of approximately 2,500 tonnes.

Gallery

  • Coast at Letipea Coast at Letipea
  • Ehalkivi Ehalkivi
  • Ehalkivi Ehalkivi
  • Ehalkivi Ehalkivi
  • Memorial stone of Letipea massacre. Memorial stone of Letipea massacre.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Rahvastik" (in Estonian). Viru-Nigula vald. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
  2. Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements 2014 (retrieved 28 July 2021)
  3. "Estonian Monuments: Death of Letipea Gas Workers" (in Estonian). www.monument.ee.
Settlements in Viru-Nigula Parish
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