Finsterest interrimost
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Cape Finisterre: a rock-bound peninsula on the west coast of Galicia, Spain, the westernmost point of that country. derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth.
- Finistère: the westernmost département of France, in Brittany. Also derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth
- Land's End: the westernmost point in England, located in Cornwall. Not that all three locations have Celtic histories.
- finster: (German) dark, gloomy
- terror
- terra: as in Finis Terræ
- rest: in the senses "respose" (interred) and "remainder"
- inter: to bury; the capes mentioned above, due to rocky shores, rough weather, and war are all ships' graveyards
- interior most: the opposite of the extreme position of these ends of the earth
- spinster: an older, unmarried woman
