In 1616, the explorer Willem Corneliszoon Schouten braved furious storms as he rounded the southernmost tip of South America.
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Cape Horn, the most southerly point of the Americas, was named after the town by Willem Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.
Pieter Willem Korthals described it in 1847/8 and named it after the explorer Willem Schouten.
Willem de Kooning | Willem Dafoe | Willem Blaeu | Willem Janszoon | Willem Mengelberg | Willem Roggeman | Herman Willem Daendels | Willem Drees | Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands | Willem van Otterloo | Willem Schouten | Willem Kloos | Willem Klein | Willem II (football club) | Willem II | Willem de Vlamingh | Willem Buiter | John Willem Gran | Willem Verstegen | Willem van Hoogstraten | Willem van Enckevoirt | Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen | Willem Sassen | Willem P.C. Stemmer | Willem Frederik Hermans | Willem C. Vis Moot | Willem B. Drees | Willem Abraham Wythoff | Pieter Willem Korthals | Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen |