ESTONIA / EESTI.
Estonian lighthouses.
Pakri lighthouse in Pakri Peninsula (map).
Stamp issued on 05.07.1995.
Face value: 1.70 Estonian kroon.
Design: Roman Matkiewicz (b. Tallinn, 27.02.1966).
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 961,200 copies.
Catalogues
- AFA No. 280.
- Michel No. 256.
- Scott No. 292.
- StampWorld No. 288.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 260.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 265.
Pakri Peninsula (in Estonian, Pakri poolsaar), 12 km (7.46 mi) in length and covering an area of about 40 km2 (15.4 sq mi), jutting out into the Baltic Sea, and the two nearby small islands, Suur-Pakri and Väike-Pakri, are administratively depend on the town of Paldiski, northwest of Harju County and mainland Estonia. The lighthouse is situated on a cape the north-western tip of the peninsula on a high slate bluff marking the water's edge of a very important shipping lane along the northern coast. A similar structure has stood here since the time of Swedish rule in Estonia (1561-1710). A new slate lighthouse was ordered to be erected here by Tsar Peter I of Russia in 1724. Another, even bigger (15 m, 48 ft) lighthouse replaced it in 1760, possibly a reconstruction of the original. The current stone lighthouse (52 m, 170.6 ft high; 73 m, 239.5 ft from sea level) was completed 80 meters from its predecessor in 1889.
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