Ponta Leste (also: ''Ponta Calheta'') is the easternmost point of the island of
São Nicolau,
Cape Verde
Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an island country and archipelagic state of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about . These islands ...
.
[Cabo Verde, Statistical Yearbook 2015]
Instituto Nacional de Estatística, p. 26 It is 8 km east of
Carriçal and 30 km east of
Ribeira Brava. The point was mentioned in a map in a 1747 atlas collection by
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (; 1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes.
Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, membe ...
as "Oost-Hoek" (Dutch), "Pointe de l'Est" (French").
It was sometimes known as East Point in English.
Lighthouse
There is a lighthouse on the headland, focal height 73 metres, range .
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See also
*List of lighthouses in Cape Verde
The following article is a list of lighthouses in Cape Verde. Cape Verde has tens of lighthouses scattered across its nine major islands. The lighthouses are administered by the Direction of Marine and Ports (''Direcção Geral de Marinha e Portos' ...
References
Headlands of Cape Verde
Geography of São Nicolau, Cape Verde
Ribeira Brava, Cape Verde
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