The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve is located in the extreme south of Chile and comprises marine areas, islands, fjords, channels, forests and moorland.
Cape Horn island (Dutch: Kaap Hoorn; Spanish: Cabo de Hornos; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile.
The Cape Horn Archipelago hosts the the world's southernmost forested ecosystem and protects 5 percent of the world's bryophyte diversity (mosses and liverworts).
Cape Horn is the southernmost point of land closely associated with South America; it is located on Isla Hornos in the Hermite Islands group, at the southern end of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.
From the 1700s to the early 1900s, Cape Horn was a part of the clipper routes which carried much of the world's trade.
Today, there are several major yacht races held regularly along the old clipper route via Cape Horn.
In 1934, the Norwegian Al Hansen was the first to round Cape Horn single-handed from east to west—the "wrong way"—in his boat Mary Jane, but was subsequently wrecked on the coast of Chile.
Finally, the Global Challenge race goes around the world the "wrong way," from east to west, which involves rounding Cape Horn against the prevailing winds and currents.
Today they live in the coastal sectors, navigating the channels of Cape Horn and the sub-antarctic archipelago region to the south of the Tierra del Fuego.
The Cape Horn Archipelago hosts the the world's southernmost forested ecosystem and protects 5 percent of the world's bryophyte diversity (mosses and liverworts).
The dividing line between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans runs along the meridian of Cape Horn, from Tierra del Fuego to the Southern Ocean.
The number of ships rounding Cape Horn from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean dropped greatly when the Panama Canal opened in 1914.
Cape Horn is part of the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, whose capital is Puerto Williams; this in turn is part of Antбrtica Chilena Province, whose capital is also Puerto Williams.
Cape Horn was noted as the halfway point from England to Australia during the nineteenth century clipper route.