Finisterre

Finisterre, Finistère, Finisterra, or Fisterra, derives from the Latin finis terrae, meaning "end of the earth", may refer to:

Places

• Finistère, the westernmost department of France
• Cape Finisterre (Fisterra), a headland in Galicia, northwest Spain
• Fisterra (comarca), a comarca (county) in A Coruña, Galicia
• Fisterra, a municipality in the comarca
• Finisterre, a Shipping Forecast sea area renamed FitzRoy in 2002
• Finisterre Range, a mountain range in Papua New Guinea

Literature

• Finisterra (novelette), a 2007 science-fiction novelette by David Moles
• Finistère (novel), a 1951 novel by Fritz Peters
• Finisterre, a poem by Sylvia Plath from her 1971 collection Crossing the Water
• Finisterre, a 1943 poetry collection by Eugenio Montale
• Finisterre universe, in the fiction of C. J. Cherryh

Music

Albums

• Finisterra (album), a 2000 album by Mägo de Oz
• Finisterre (album), a 2002 album and subsequent film by Saint Etienne
• Finisterre, a 2008 album by Zydepunks
• Finisterre , a 2017 album by Der Weg einer Freiheit

Songs

• "Finisterre", on the 1990 Cooking Vinyl album Freedom and Rain (1990) by June Tabor and The Oyster Band
• "Finisterre", on the 2006 album Memorial (2006) by the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell
• "Finisterre", on the 2011 album Touchstones (2011) by German progressive rock band Subsignal

Ships

• HMS Finisterre, a Royal Navy destroyer
• Finisterre, a Carleton Mitchell yacht, the only one to win the Bermuda Race three times in succession (1956–60)
• FV Finisterre, a crabber lost at St. Ives, Cornwall in 1946

Other uses

• Finisterre (retailer), an English clothing company
• Finisterre languages, spoken in New Guinea
• Alejandro Finisterre (1919–2007), inventor of futbolín, a Spanish variant of table football/foosball
• Felix Finisterre, Saint Lucian politician
• Finisterre, a 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

See also

• Land's End (disambiguation)
• SS Cap Finisterre, a 1911 German transatlantic ocean liner
• Finisterres, a 1997 album by Dan Ar Braz
• Finist'air, airline based in Finistère
• FinisTerrae, supercomputer