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Finisterre, Cape

Finisterre, Cape (fĭnĭstârˈ) [key] [Lat. finis terrae = land's end], rocky promontory, extreme NW Spain, on the Atlantic coast of Galicia. Off the cape, the English won two naval battles against the French (1747, in the War of the Austrian Succession; 1805, in the Napoleonic Wars).

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