Location SaaremaaEstonia Foundation concrete Height 7.6 m Focal height 26 m | Year first lit 1933 (second) Construction concrete tower Range 27,780 m Year first constructed 1879 | |
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Deactivated 1933 (first)1992 (second) Tower shape cylindrical tower with balcony and lantern Similar Harilaid, Vilsandi, Vilsandi National Park, Sõrve Lighthouse, Kõpu Lighthouse | ||
Perfect day at kiipsaare lighthouse
Kiipsaare Lighthouse is located on the tip of Harilaid Peninsula in Saaremaa, Estonia in the territory of Vilsandi National Park.
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The lighthouse was built from reinforced concrete in 1933. Its purpose was to warn mariners on the Baltic Sea about the dangers in the vicinity of the peninsula and to be of assistance in taking bearings. At that time the 25-metre-high (82 ft) lighthouse was between 100 to 150 metres (330 to 490 ft) inland, but due to erosion it is now a few meters offshore. A lack of supporting ground has caused the lighthouse to lean.
While in 1988 the waterline was still 11 metres (36 ft) from the lighthouse, by the early 1990s the sea had already reached the lighthouse and it started to incline. Because of this the generator was removed in 1992 and Kiipsaare lighthouse remained in the records as a daymark until 2009.