Sõrve Lighthouse
Sõrve Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Saaremaa Parish, on the island of Saaremaa, in Estonia. The current lighthouse is a cylindrical concrete tower, which was built to replace a temporary wooden structure lighthouse that served as a signal point between 1945 and 1960.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Akra, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Lighthouse
- Description: lighthouse in Estonia
- Also known as: “Sorve Tuletorn”, “Sõrve tuletorn”, “Sõrve Tuletorn”, “Swalfer Ort Lighthouse”, and “Sworve Lighthouse”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sääre.
Sääre
Hamlet
Photo: Rutake, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sääre is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia, on the island of Saaremaa. It is located on the southern top of the Sõrve Peninsula. As of the 2011 census, the settlement is uninhabited.
Sõrve Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Sääre küla, Saaremaa Parish, Saare, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
57.90982° or 57° 54′ 35″ northLongitude
22.05536° or 22° 3′ 19″ eastElevation
5 metres (16 feet)Height
52 metres (171 feet)Open location code
9G94W354+W4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3372909421OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=lighthouseGeoNames ID
794645Wikidata ID
Q3376479
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Swedish—“Sõrve Lighthouse” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սիրվե փարոս”
- Czech: “Maják Sõrve”
- Czech: “Sõrve”
- Danish: “Sõrve fyrtårn”
- Dutch: “Vuurtoren van Sorve”
- Dutch: “Vuurtoren van Sõrve”
- Estonian: “Sõrve majakas”
- Estonian: “Sõrve tuletorn”
- Finnish: “Sõrven majakka”
- French: “phare de Sõrve”
- French: “Phare de Sõrve”
- German: “Leuchtturm Sõrve”
- German: “Sõrve tuletorn”
- Italian: “Faro di Sõrve”
- Latvian: “Serves bāka”
- Latvian: “Sirves bāka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sõrve fyr”
- Norwegian: “Sõrve fyr”
- Polish: “Latarnia morska Sõrve”
- Russian: “Маяк Сырве”
- Russian: “Сырве”
- Spanish: “Faro de Sõrve”
- Swedish: “Sõrve fyr”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sõrve Lighthouse”. Photo: Akra, CC BY-SA 2.5.