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Cape Horn and Other Stories From the End of the World, by Francisco Coloane. Latin American Literary Review Press, 2003. ISBN 978-1-891270-17-8; Gipsy Moth Circles the World, Sir Francis Chichester; International Marine, 2001. ISBN 978-0-07-136449-2; Haul Away! Teambuilding Lessons from a Voyage around Cape Horn, by Rob Duncan. Authorhouse, 2005.
Cape Location Coordinates Notes Cape Horn: Chile: Hornos Island; Southernmost point in the Tierra del Fuego islands of South America and the official dividing point between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The term cape has a different tradition of usage in the American Midwest along the Mississippi River. The middle Mississippi River Valley once formed part of the French Colonies of Quebec and Louisiana , also referred to as Upper Louisiana (Haute-Louisiane) or the Illinois Country (Pays des Illinois). [ 1 ]
They are named after the Dutch admiral Jacques l'Hermite (1582-1624). Hermite Islands were visited by Charles Darwin at the turn of 1832/1833. In 1979, the Argentine military junta known as the National Reorganization Process made a strategic feint towards the islands, called Operation Soberania, in an attempt to compel Chile into renegotiating their border with Argentina.
Thebes is a village in and the former county seat of Alexander County, Illinois, United States. The population was 208 at the 2020 census , down from 436 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is part of the Cape Girardeau – Jackson , MO -IL Metropolitan Statistical Area .
This is a list of municipalities of all types (including cities, towns, and villages) in the United States that lie in more than one county (or, in the case of Louisiana, in more than one parish). Counties are listed in descending order of the county's share of the municipal population per the 2000 census .
The area around Cape Horn, including the Le Maire Strait 1633 map of Strait of Magellan, showing Strait Le Maire at the right, marked Fretum le Maire and Straet Le Maire Isla de los Estados as seen from Le Maire Strait
Railroad Southern Illinois and Missouri Bridge Company, former joint owners St. Louis Southwestern Railway and Missouri Pacific Railroad: Thebes, Illinois ~43.6 Cairo I-57 Bridge: I-57: Charleston, Missouri–Cairo, Illinois ~7.5