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Article Nº 2952 Cross-reference · Vol. III · p. 187

Harbour of refuge

Original title: Porto de Abrigo

See Molhe da Pontinha (‘little point breakwater’).

See · Nº 2948 · Headland or cape Pontinha (locality, road, islets and mole) Entry on the Pontinha, the coastal projection at the western end of Funchal bay, originally called Ilhéus after two rocky islets later joined to the shore by walls and by the breakwater (molhe) completed in 1889. It traces the forts, chapel, lighthouse, landing quay and the Pontinha road built there.
See · Nº 2407 · Quay, pier or lighthouse Pontinha mole (breakwater) History of the Pontinha breakwater in Funchal harbour, built by French contractors in 1885–1889 and rebuilt after the 1892 storms, together with earlier eighteenth- and nineteenth-century projects for a harbour mole.

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Referenced here · 2: Pontinha (locality, road, islets and mole) Nº 2948
Pontinha mole (breakwater) Nº 2407

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