Langekare

Langekare is a small, uninhabited Baltic Sea island belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates are coord|58|48|21|N|23|09|03|E| [ [http://www.tageo.com/index-e-en-v-02-d-44543.htm?Langekare Tageo.com] ]

Langekare is a 1.2 hectare island lying off the eastern coast off of the larger Estonian island of Hiiumaa and is administered by Pühalepa Parish, Hiiu County. Along with a number of other small islands and islets, it makes up the Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Reserve (Estonian: "Hiiumaa laidude maastikukaitseala"). Langekare holds the distinction of being the only island of the reserve being a limestone-based island, the rest of the islands being moraine-based. [ [http://www.laiud.hiiuloodus.ee/english/index.html Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Reserve] ]

Langekare is also part of the World Commission on Protected Areas. [ [http://www.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=170737&level=nat World Commission On Protected Areas: World Database on Protected Areas] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.laiud.hiiuloodus.ee/ Map of the Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Reserve]

ee also

List of islands of Estonia