Suurlaid ( en, Big Islet) is a small island in the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden and the North and Central European Plain. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and fr ...

belonging to the country of

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...

. Its coordinates are Wikimapia: Suurlaid
/ref> Suurlaid lies just off south coast of the Estonian island of

Muhu Muhu (also called Muhumaa in Estonian), is an island in the West Estonian archipelago of the Baltic Sea. With an area of it is the third largest island belonging to Estonia, after Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. Together with neighbouring smaller isl ...

. Together Muhu and neighbouring islands Viirelaid,

Võilaid Võilaid is a small, uninhabited island in the Baltic Sea belonging to the country of Estonia. Its coordinates are . Võilaid lies southeast of the Estonian island of Muhu in the Gulf of Riga. The island is 2.5 km² and uninhabited. In the s ...

it forms

Muhu Parish , leader_title = , leader_party = , seat = Liiva , subdivision_name1 = Saare County , subdivision_name = Estonia , subdivision_type ...

(Estonian: ''Muhu vald''), the rural municipality within

Saare County Saare County ( et, Saare maakond or ''Saaremaa''; la, Oesel; german: Ösel; sv, Ösel) 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, Ab ...

, Estonia. The nearest populated settlement is the village of Pädaste, which lies on the southern coast of Muhu. The island has a total area of 1.9 km² and is very flat. The highest elevation point on the island is only 2.1 meters above the sea level. The area around the island is rich fish stocks and the island itself is farm managed in the spring and summer with cattle and sheep.

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Estonian islands in the Baltic Muhu Parish {{Saare-geo-stub

See also

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