Hiiumaa

[hee-oo-mah]

noun

1. an island in the Baltic, west of and belonging to Estonia. 373 sq. mi. (965 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Before the first reintroduction, in 2000 on a 100-square-kilometer island off Estonia called Hiiumaa, hunters and a trapper killed the island’s entire American mink population, the legacy of a defunct fur farm.

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Hiiumaa now has a thriving population of at least 100 animals.

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A Baltic ringed seal rests on a rock in Estonia's Hiiumaa Islets Landscape Protection Area.

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Estonia said on Monday that it was boosting surveillance around the islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa islands -- a potential resupply route from the West in the event of conflict with Russia to the east.

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It stretches across the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea, connecting the Estonian coastline to the island of Hiiumaa.

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