Beach at Cape Kolka, Latvia

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Kolka, in Estonian (kolgas) can mean something like "remote corner of the earth" and it suits this place.

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Findings from Wikipedia - The Livonian name Kūolka means "corner" in English. So that seems logical.

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Livonians used to live in this area in now Northern Latvia. Some still live there, but it's sadly a very small number. In 2011, there were 250 people who claimed Livonian ethnicity in Latvia according to Wikipedia.

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You see, Livonians historically spoke Livonian, a Uralic language closely related to Estonian and Finnish. So that language sounds and seems very similar to Estonian so reading it you can guess the translations also.

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There were some stones put just on the corner of the land so it could be easier to see the changes with years when the sea moves the sand around and moves it to one or the other side.

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It was quite windy on that corner.

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The wind also made some cool looking patterns on the sand.

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That was pretty much it for that day.

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