Tagalaht ( sv, Taggaviken) is a bay in the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from ...

, on the north-west coast of

Saaremaa Saaremaa is the largest island in Estonia, measuring . The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island and west of Muhu island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago. The capital of the isla ...

Island in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, an ...

, situated between the Tagamõisa Peninsula (german: Hundsort) and

Ninase Ninase is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County in western Estonia. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Mustjala Parish. The Saaremaa Harbour is located in Ninase. Ninase village is located on Ninase peninsula w ...

(Cape Ninnast). During

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...

, the bay, guarded by Russian beach forts at Hundsort and Ninnast, was the main landing point for German troops during

Operation Albion Operation Albion was a World War I German air, land and naval operation against the Russian forces in October 1917 to occupy the West Estonian Archipelago. The land campaign opened with German landings at the Tagalaht bay on the island o ...

in October 1917, when Saaremaa was occupied.Barrett, Michael B
''Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands''
Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN. {{ISBN, 978-0-253-34969-9

References

Bays of Estonia Saaremaa Parish Bays of the Baltic Sea Landforms of Saare County