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Europe’s final scrap of land before America sticks out of the Atlantic like a shark’s fin. Monchique, a rocky, uninhabited islet, lies at the furthest extreme of the Azores archipelago. It’s part of Portugal, but Lisbon is only a few miles closer than Newfoundland in Canada. Eleven of us, a group of family and friends from Lisbon, had long expressed a wish to travel to the outer reaches of the country. And now we have definitively reached it, bobbing up and down just off the islet in a small bo…
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