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West Africa & Atlantic, São Vicente

Mindelo, Cape Verde

Porto Grande coal port

Tidal foreshore Inferred from historyGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: British coaling-station refuse: beers, gins, condiments - a Victorian steamship layer in the tropics..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1838-1900

Historical inference; no documented digs found.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Harbor traffic
swell.

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