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14 unusual facts about Cape Horn


Aaron S. Merrill

During his period he cruised extensively with the Chilean Navy, becoming the first foreigner to round the Horn in a Chilean warship.

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman

The ship sails to the tip of South America, the treacherous Cape Horn, and unsuccessfully attempts to pass three times.

Daniel Woodriff

Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 tons of timber before sailing back to England via Cape Horn and Rio de Janeiro, arriving back at Spithead on 23 July 1804, completing a circumnavigation in ten months and three days.

East India Marine Society

The East India Marine Society (est.1799) of Salem, Massachusetts was "composed of persons who have actually navigated the seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn, as masters or supercargoes of vessels belonging to Salem."

Eastham, Massachusetts

Eastham is the birthplace of Freeman Hatch, who in 1853 set the world record (which still stands) for a single-hull wooden sailing vessel from San Francisco around Cape Horn to Boston aboard the clipper ship Northern Light.

Émile Oustalet

1882-1883, (Birds in the report of the scientific mission of Cape Horn. 1882-1883).

Frank Sandford

There were moments of real peril, as when the Coronet fought its way through the thundering seas around Cape Horn and then again after a powerful gale broke the main sheet and (indirectly) part of the mast almost immediately after Sandford had shot an albatross.

Goble, Oregon

In order to ship the ferry, crews disassembled it into 57,159 pieces and shipped it around Cape Horn.

Henry A. Peirce

He then went around Cape Horn to Peru, where he was employed as Peruvian Consul to Hawaii.

Henry Stanton Burton

Accepted by the U.S. Army on August 1846 it was transported around Cape Horn to California where it served as garrisons.

John M. Rowan

The ship was provisioned for two years and then set on its journey around Cape Horn and to California.

Peter Puget

In 1795, the two-ship squadron returned to England by way of Cape Horn, capturing a Dutch East Indiaman along the way.

Thomas Whitcombe

During his career he also painted scenes showing the Cape of Good Hope, Madeira, Cuba and Cape Horn.

Zachary Hickes

Departing Rio, Endeavour rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to reach Tahiti in April 1769.


Chiton magnificus

The distribution of Chiton magnificus ranges from the Galapagos Islands at the equator, to Cape Horn at 55° South: Chile, Haida Gwaii, Ecuador, Peru.

Drimys winteri

When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the Golden Hind at the outset, the only ship that successfully rounded Cape Horn with him was the Elizabeth, captained by John Winter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back.

Empetrum rubrum

Empetrum rubrum, known as red crowberry or diddle-dee (Chilean Spanish: Murtilla de Magallanes), is a species of plant in the Ericaceae family with a distributional range in Chile from Talca (35°S) to Cape Horn (55°S); in areas of adjacent Argentina; in the Falkland Islands; and in Tristan da Cunha.

Fyodor Konyukhov

Konyukhov is the only person to have reached such extreme points of the planet as the North Pole (three times), the South Pole, the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean and the top of Mount Everest (twice) and also sailed around the world via Cape Horn.

History of Costa Rica

This was compounded by transportation problems - the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.

Hoorn

Cape Horn, the most southerly point of the Americas, was named after the town by Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.

Horace Davis

Davis sailed for San Francisco, California, around Cape Horn in 1852, and upon arriving, engaged for a brief time as a gold miner, a lumber supercargo surveyor for a coastal steamer, and a purser for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.

Nimrod Islands

The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn.

Purissima, California

Henry Dobbel (born in Holstein, Germany on July 1, 1829; died in Purissima on December 22, 1891) came to California via Cape Horn in 1845.

The Two Georges

They also uncover the true culprits: the Holy Alliance, a union of France and Spain controlling almost everything from the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, and Bushell's superior officer and covert fanatic Sons of Liberty sympathizer, Lieutenant General Horace Bragg.