List of places described as the end of land or the world
The following are places described by concepts suggesting the End of land of the World:
- the end of a valley near Engelberg, Switzerland, called "End der Welt"
- Finisterre, from Latin Finis Terrae ("Land's End"), is the origin of various locations' names
- Cape Finisterre
- Acre, Many people in Brazil believe this is the end land of the world because it's very forgotten, Acre, Brazil
- End of the World Turn, cliffs along a bend in the Elk River near Ivydale, West Virginia, USA
- The End of the World, referring to a levee in the Upper Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Verdens Ende ("World's End") at the southern tip of the island of Tjøme in Vestfold, Norway.
- Yamal Peninsula ("Yemal" means "End of the World" for its indigenous inhabitants) in Siberia, Russia
- Isla de los Estados, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, has a lighthouse known as Faro del fin del mundo ("Lighthouse at the end of the world")
- Land's End Peninsula in western Cornwall England
- World's End at Horton Plains, Near Ambewela in Sri Lanka
- El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, or Lands End, Cabo San Lucas
- Koválovec, village in western Slovakia.
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