Earth and Environment Atlas

How The Planet Works
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Geological Formation

West Estonian archipelago

Islands and Archipelagos

The West Estonian archipelago, known in Estonian as the Laane-Eesti saarestik and also called the Moonsund archipelago, is a group of islands in the Baltic Sea around the Vainameri strait, separated from the Estonian mainland by that body of water. It covers about 4,000 square kilometers and is made up of four large islands, Saaremaa, Hiiumaa, Muhu and Vormsi, together with roughly 900 smaller islands. In 1990 UNESCO named the archipelago a Biosphere Reserve under its Man and the Biosphere Programme. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Connections

In Discipline

Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

Source Wikidata: West Estonian archipelago
In the Other Atlases
Sources
West Estonian archipelago (Wikipedia)
Lead section
Quote, Lead section
The West Estonian archipelago (Estonian: Lääne-Eesti saarestik, also Moonsund archipelago) is a group of Estonian islands located in the Baltic Sea around Väinameri.
View the Source
Wikidata: West Estonian archipelago
Wikidata Q1464773, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.