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[[File:Penmarc'h.jpg|thumb|Phare d'Eckmuhl, at the end of Point Penmarc'h]]
'''Point Penmarc'h''', often spelled '''Point Penmarch''', or in French '''Pointe de Penmarc'h''', is the extremity of a small [[peninsula]] in [[Finistère]] [[Departments of France|department]] in [[Brittany]] in northwestern [[France]],<ref>''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition'', p. 915.</ref> and the northern limit of the [[Bay of Biscay]].

It contains the fortified remains of a town which was of considerable importance from the 14th to the 16th centuries, and included today's [[Communes of France|commune]] of [[Penmarc'h]], which covers the harbours of [[Saint-Guénolé]] and [[Kerity]]. The town owed its prosperity to its [[cod]]-banks, the disappearance of which together with the discovery of the [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] cod-banks and the pillage of the place by the [[bandit]] [[Guy Éder de La Fontenelle|La Fontenelle]] in 1595 contributed to its decline.

The [[Phare d'Eckmühl]], a [[lighthouse]] with a light visible for {{convert|60|nmi|0|lk=in}}, stands on the point.

==See also==
*[[Penmarc'h]]

==References==
[[File:Port de Saint-Guenole en 2006.jpg|thumb|Saint-Guénolé fishing harbour]]
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*''Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition''. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster Incorporated, 1997. {{ISBN|0-87779-546-0}}.

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[[Category:Headlands of Brittany]]
[[Category:Landforms of Finistère]]


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