Letipea

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

Letipea
Village
Letipea lighthouse
Letipea
Location in Estonia
Coordinates: 59°32′50″N 26°35′56″E
Country Estonia
County Lääne-Viru County
Municipality Viru-Nigula Parish
Population
 (01.01.2011[1])
 • Total16

On 8 August 1976 a conflict between resting workers and drunk Soviet border guards took place in Letipea, resulting the death of 8 and injuring 18.[2]

Letipea landscape reserve (area 608,8 ha), is founded 30. January 1992 with offer of Marek Vahula with 3 days as bird reserve against therebuilding-plan of the port of Kunda.

Letipea Ehalkivi

Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is the Estonia's biggest pegmatite granite boulder at the tip of Letipea peninsula. It is the largest erratic boulder in the glaciation area of North Europe. Height 7 m, circumference 48.2 m, a volume of 930 m3 and a mass of approx 2500 tonnes.

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

References
  1. "Rahvastik" (in Estonian). Viru-Nigula vald. Archived from the original on 2011-07-20.
  2. "Estonian Monuments: Death of Letipea Gas Workers" (in Estonian). www.monument.ee.
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