Finisterre, Cape
Finisterre, Cape fĭnĭstâr´ [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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