Harilaid

Harilaid

The Harilaid peninsula is a peninsula on the north west coast of the island of Saaremaa in Estonia.

Harilaid covers an area of 4.5 km² and is low lying (the highest elevation is 4.6m). It is connected to the mainland by a 300 metre wide neck of land, and was a separate island until the end of the 17th century.

Large numbers of birds stop on Harilaid on their migration route, and there is a resting site of grey seals on the west coast. There is a large pine plantation on the peninsula, started in the 1970s and inhabited by elk and wild boar. The peninsula was added to the Vilsandi National Park in 1993.

The peninsula seems never to have had a settled population. The Kiipsaare lighthouse was built at the tip of the peninsula in 1933. At that time the lighthouse was almost 100 metres from the shore, but it is now a few metres offshore. It is now unused, and has a pronounced lean as a result of erosion. The Estonian war film "Somnabuul" was shot there in 2004.

Access is by a rough road from Kihelkonna.


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