Finisterre
Finisterre, Finistère, Finisterra, or Fisterra may refer to:
Places
- Cape Finisterre (Fisterra), headland in Galicia, northwest Spain, the Southern landfall of the Bay of Biscay
- Fisterra (comarca), comarca (county) in A Coruña, Galicia
- Fisterra, municipality in the comarca
- Finisterre, Shipping Forecast area renamed FitzRoy in 2002
- Fisterra (comarca), comarca (county) in A Coruña, Galicia
- Finistère, department of France, the Northern landfall of the Bay of Biscay
- Finisterre Point, Squam lake, New Hampshire, USA
- Finisterre Range, mountain range in Papua New Guinea
People
- Felix Finisterre, Saint Lucian politician
Arts, entertainment, and media
Characters
- Finisterre, character in the television show The Adventures of Portland Bill (1983)
- Senator Ortolan Finistirre, a character in the novel Thank You for Smoking and its film adaptation
Literature
- Finisterra (novelette), 2007 science-fiction novelette by David Moles
- Finisterre (poetry), 1971 collection by Sylvia Plath
- Finisterre (poetry), 1943 collection by Eugenio Montale
- Finisterre universe, in the fiction of C. J. Cherryh
Albums
- Finisterra (album), 2000 album by Mägo de Oz
- Finisterre (album), 2002 album and subsequent film by Saint Etienne
- Finisterre (2008), album by Zydepunks
- Finisterres (1997), album by Dan Ar Braz
- Finisterre (2017), album by Der Weg einer Freiheit
Songs
- "Finisterre", the final track on the Cooking Vinyl album Freedom and Rain (1990) by June Tabor and The Oyster Band.
- "Finisterre", the second track on Memorial (2006) by the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell.
- "Finisterre", the seventh track on the album Touchstones (2011) by German progressive rock band Subsignal.
- "Fis Terra", the third track on the album O Berro Seco (1980) by Galician band Milladoiro.
Ships
- FV Finisterre, crabber lost at St. Ives, Cornwall in 1946
- HMS Finisterre (D55), Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy
- Finisterre, a Carleton Mitchell yacht, the only one to win the Bermuda Race three times in succession (1956–60)
- SS Cap Finisterre, a 1911 German transatlantic ocean liner
Other uses
- Finisterre (retailer), St Agnes-based ethical clothing company
- Finisterre languages in New Guinea
See also
- Finist'air, airline based in Finistère
- FinisTerrae, supercomputer
- Land's End (disambiguation)
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