Download e-book for iPad: Geotourism Highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa Islands by Anto Raukas, Heikki Bauert, Sebastian Willman, Elle

By Anto Raukas, Heikki Bauert, Sebastian Willman, Elle Puurmann, Urve Ratas

ISBN-10: 998599731X

ISBN-13: 9789985997314

Show description

Read or Download Geotourism Highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa Islands PDF

Similar nonfiction_3 books

New PDF release: Large-scale scientific computing, 7 conf., LSSC 2009,

This booklet constitutes the completely refereed post-conference court cases of the seventh overseas convention on Large-Scale clinical Computations, LSSC 2009, held in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in June 2009. The ninety three revised complete papers provided including five plenary and invited papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from a variety of submissions for inclusion within the publication.

Extra resources for Geotourism Highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa Islands

Example text

Bauert Places of geotourism interest at Sõrve peninsula (SW Saaremaa) Geotourism highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands 35 A series of separated limestone exposures up to 2 m in height occur in a 2-kilometre long stretch along the coast, south of Kaugatoma village in the western part of the Sõrve peninsula. This is the vanishing Kaugatuma cliff, which has been out of the reach of stormy waves for quite a long time. Small wave-cut notches can be seen in the lower part of the cliff wall which is composed of clayey limestones with marl interbeds.

Photo: G. Bauert high observation tower at Rauna hill offers magnificent views of the West-Saaremaa Upland forests.

The predecessor of Vilsandi National Park was the Vaika Bird Sanctuary created on August 14th, 1910 to protect the abundant seabird population on Vaika islands. These are six rocky islets off the southwestern coast of Vilsandi Island. The Vaika Bird Sanctuary was the first nature reserve ever established in the Baltic countries. From 1924 to 1941, the bird sanctuary was administrated by Tartu University. It was reorganized as the Vaika State Nature Reserve in 1957 and enlarged in 1971 with a new name – Vilsandi Nature Reserve.

Download PDF sample

Geotourism Highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa Islands by Anto Raukas, Heikki Bauert, Sebastian Willman, Elle Puurmann, Urve Ratas


by Anthony
4.1

Rated 4.12 of 5 – based on 11 votes