Place: Cape Finisterre

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A journey to the end of the world

Take a walk with Liz O’ Brien to the literal end of the earth at Finisterre, on the rugged Atlantic coast of Galicia in Spain, where for centuries pilgrims have completed the Camino de Santiago.

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King visits Spain's oil-stained coastline

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Spain braced for biggest slick yet

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Weather eases to aid oil-slick clean-up

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Ships recover part of oil tanker spill

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Crews fight advance of 'black tide' on Spain

20 million gallon 'time bomb' threatens Spanish coast

Cleanup crews braced today for the possibility of a massive oil spill and environmental catastrophe, propping up 18 miles of floating booms around the spot where an oil tanker broke in two and sank in the Atlantic.

Wed, 20 Nov, 2002

Stricken tanker splits and sinks

A TIME bomb of almost 20 million gallons of thick oil was ticking on the bed of the Atlantic last night, threatening to swamp Spanish and Portuguese coasts with one of the world's worst ecological disasters.

Wed, 20 Nov, 2002