Oesel
Americannoun
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The Germans still held four Estonian islands blocking the mouth of the Gulf of Riga�the large islands of Dag� and Oesel, the smaller inshore islands of Vormsi and Muhu.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a fossilized marine scorpion recently found on the island of Oesel in the Baltic Sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
On 12 October the Germans landed a force on the island of Oesel, and within a week had overrun that and the other islands at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga.
From A Short History of the Great War by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
Thus Esthonian peasants, in the island of Oesel, stand in great awe of the weevil, an insect which is exceedingly destructive to the grain.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
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