On the occasion of the centennial of Tobias's birth in 1973, a memorial museum was opened in Selja, Käina Parish in the house where he was born.
The first Estonian professional composer Rudolf Tobias (1873–1918) was born an spent his early childhood in Selja.
They settle the previously uninhabited islands of Selja and Kinn in Norway during the rule of the pagan Jarl Hákon Sigurðarson.