Letipea is a village in

Viru-Nigula Parish Viru-Nigula Parish () is a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 1,293 (as of 1 January 2011) and an area of . Settlements ;Towns: Kunda, Estonia, Kunda ;Small boroughs: Aseri, ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...

, northern

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. It is located on the Letipea cape (Letipea neem) on the coast of the

Gulf of Finland The Gulf of Finland (; ; ; ) is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland to the north and Estonia to the south, to Saint Petersburg—the second largest city of Russia—to the east, where the river Neva drains into it. ...

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 The Soviet Border Troops () were the border guard of the Soviet Union, subordinated to the Soviet state security agency: first to the ''Cheka''/OGPU, then to NKVD/ MGB and, finally, to the KGB. Accordingly, they were known as NKVD Border Secu ...

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

Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is Estonia's biggest pegmatite granite boulder, at the tip of the Letipea peninsula. It is the largest

erratic boulder A glacial erratic is a glacially deposited rock differing from the type of rock native to the area in which it rests. Erratics, which take their name from the Latin word ' ("to wander"), are carried by glacial ice, often over distances of hund ...

in the glaciation region of North Europe. It measures 7 meters in height, a circumference of 48.2 m, a volume of 930 m³, and a mass of approximately 2,500 tonnes.

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File:Letipea coast - panoramio.jpg, Coast at Letipea File:Ehalkivi1.jpg, Ehalkivi File:Ehalkivi 2.jpg, Ehalkivi File:Ehalkivi2.jpg, Ehalkivi File:Letipea ohvrite mälestuskivi.jpg, Memorial stone of Letipea massacre.

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Villages in Lääne-Viru County Kreis Wierland {{LääneViru-geo-stub

Letipea Ehalkivi

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