Letipea is a village in Viru-Nigula Parish

Viru-Nigula Parish

Viru-Nigula Parish is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 1,293 and an area of 234.05 km².-Settlements:Viru-Nigula small borough....

, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

, on the coast of Gulf of Finland

Gulf of Finland

The Gulf of Finland is the easternmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It extends between Finland and Estonia all the way to Saint Petersburg in Russia, where the river Neva drains into it. Other major cities around the gulf include Helsinki and Tallinn...

. It's located on the Letipea cape. Letipea has a population of 16 (as of 1 January 2011).

On 8 August 1976 a conflict between resting workers and drunk Soviet border guards took place in Letipea, resulting the death of 8 and injuring 18.

Letipea Ehalkivi

Ehalkivi (Sunset Glow Boulder) is the Estonias biggest pegmatite granite boulder at the tip of Letipea peninsula. It is the largest erratic boulder in the glaciation area of North Europe. Height 7m, circumference 48,2m, a volume of 930m3 and a mass of approx 2500 tonnes.