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Cape Horn (Spanish: Cabo de Hornos, pronounced [ˈkaβo ðe ˈoɾnos]) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is ...
Joseph Warren Holmes—American sea captain who sailed around Cape Horn 84 times; command of clipper Seminole. [1] Nathaniel Palmer—American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. Robert Waterman (sea captain)—Clipper captain famous for making record-breaking times and for being rough on his crews. [2] [3]
For the sailor, a great cape is both a very simple and an extremely complicated whole of rocks, currents, breaking seas and huge waves, fair winds and gales, joys and fears, fatigue, dreams, painful hands, empty stomachs, wonderful moments, and suffering at times.
The world's southernmost national park, [5] it is located 12 hours by boat from Puerto Williams in the Cape Horn Archipelago, which belongs to the Commune of Cabo de Hornos in the Antártica Chilena Province of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region. The park was created in 1945 [2] and includes the Wollaston Islands and the Hermite Islands.
In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn, which he named after the recently destroyed ship Hoorn, [note 1] and the Dutch city of Hoorn, after which the lost ship was named, the town in which Schouten himself was born. Schouten named the strait itself "Le Maire Strait".
Sank off Cape Horn. Probably the biggest single-incident maritime loss of life in the history of Chile. Olympian United States: 1906 A steamboat that was wrecked at Possession Bay while under tow. Oriflamme Spain: 1770
She finally turned and sailed the other way, passing the Pacific, Cape Horn, the Atlantic, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Indian Ocean, to finally arrive in Bunbury after 76 days at sea. [17] Joshua Slocum, the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation in the Spray, from 1895 to 1898, rounded Cape Horn from east to west. His was not the ...
The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean ( Scotia Sea ) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean .