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Finisterre is lost overboard in forecast change
(The Times)
February 7, 2002
(posted Feb. 5)
By Robin Young
YESTERDAY'S shipping forecast finally sank Finisterre, the shipping area whose name derived from sailors referring to the western tip of Spain as the end of the earth - "finis terre".
By agreement between Britain, France, Spain, Portugal and Morocco, Finisterre has been replaced on the BBC's Radio 4 shipping forecasts with the hitherto ...... Read more on The Times
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