Cape Horn Island
Cape Horn Island (Spanish: Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.
Cape Horn was discovered and first rounded by the Dutchman Willem Schouten, who named it About this sound Kaap Hoorn (help·info) after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands. For decades, Cape Horn was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. The waters around Cape Horn are particularly hazardous, owing to strong winds, large waves, strong currents and icebergs; these dangers have made it notorious as a sailors' graveyard.
Open Water Swimming
Victor Guillermo Contreras, whose nickname is Tiburón, completed a 5 km swim from Herschel Island to Cape Horn Island in 1980.
External links
- El ÚLTIMO ALETAZO DEL TIBURÓN CONTRERAS
- Tiburón Likes Cold Water
- A Dream Series Of Swim In Patagonia With Nuala Moore
- Meeting Of The Oceans, Swim With No Land East Or West
- PatagoniaSwim
- Cold Water Crossings With Patagonia Swim
- Open Water Swimming
- Daily News of Open Water Swimming
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Nuala Moore On Swimming Around Cape Horn
