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The Aguillóns

Cariño, Ortegal, A Coruña

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The Aguillóns

Curiosity · Cariño, Ortegal, A Coruña

The three sharp stacks that rise below the lighthouse were called Trileucum by Ptolemy, probably for their whiteness; until the 1970s they held a large guillemot colony, now gone from this stretch of coast.

Photo: Marina Quak (CC BY 3.0)

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