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Elucidário Madeirense

Place foreign city/place Mauritania Africa

Banc d'Arguin

Banco de Arguim

Mauritania · Africa

Shoal off Africa where the Medusa was wrecked.

Map: Africa (1)

1Mentioned in

Medusa — Shoal off Africa where the Medusa was wrecked.

2Chronology

1816
The French frigate Medusa passed within sight of Madeira without landing and was wrecked days later on the Arguin bank.