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Abandoned Uitru leg lighthouse Ihasalu day mark at the top of the Ihasalu peninsula.
The top of the Ihasalu peninsula and the leg of Uitru on an aerial photo.
Ihasalu peninsula is a peninsula in Jõelähtme municipality, Harju county, between Ihasalu and Kaberneeme bay.
The peninsula is more than 5 km long and up to 2 km wide, a part of the coastal lowland of Northern Estonia extending to the northwest. The peninsula with a predominantly sandy surface is mostly covered by beach sand and forest.
The Ihasalu peninsula started emerging from the sea as an island about 3500 years ago. This island joined the mainland and formed a peninsula two thousand years later, between the 3rd and 5th centuries. century. The peninsula is mostly flat, sometimes with a steep beach.The peninsula ends with Uitru leg.