After a further 3km comes the end of the peninsula and Sääre Lighthouse, now a meteorological observation post. The current building dates from 1960 although the first one was built in 1770. The Tsarist armies set up a defence station here during World War I, but it never saw action (this isn't true, it did.). It is usually possible to climb the lighthouse although ample views towards the Latvian coast can be enjoyed from the ground. On the beach is a shipwreck that dates from Christmas 1995 when 80 Kurds landed, they assumed, in Sweden. They were in due course returned to Latvia but only after they had been feted by the islanders.
