Kaugatoma (1977–1997 ''Kaugatuma'') is a village in

Saaremaa Parish Saaremaa Parish, also known as Saaremaa Municipality (), is a municipality in Saare County in western Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland a ...

Saare County Saare County ( or ''Saaremaa''; ; ; ; ) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It consists of Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia, and several smaller islands near it, most notably Muhu, Ruhnu, Abruka and Vilsandi. The county borders Lääne Count ...

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, on the island of

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. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 6. Kaugatoma is located on the eastern coast of Kaugatoma Bay (part of the

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) where a high and long Kaugatoma cliff is situated. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in Salme Parish. During the reform, village of Mõisaküla was merged into village of Kaugatoma. Formerly (1977–1997), Mõisaküla was also part of Kaugatoma, but 1997–2017 it was a standalone village.

Gallery

File:Kaugatoma kalmeväli.jpg, Ancient burial site in Kaugatoma. File:Sõrmuspaas.jpg,

Crinoid Crinoids are marine invertebrates that make up the class Crinoidea. Crinoids that remain attached to the sea floor by a stalk in their adult form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are ...

fossils in the Kaugatoma cliff.

References

Villages in Saare County {{saare-geo-stub