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Definition of Cape horn
1. Noun. A rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego).
Generic synonyms: Cape, Ness, Foreland, Head, Headland, Promontory
Definition of Cape horn
1. Proper noun. the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cape Horn
Literary usage of Cape horn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Savages—Scenery of the Forests—cape horn—Wigwam Cove—Miserable Condition of
the Savages—Famines—Cannibals—Matricide—Religious Feelings — Great ..."
2. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"The fox Possum figures in'' The Valley of the Moon," which was resumed and
completed on the cape horn voyage, and also in "The Mutiny of the Elsinore," this ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"Twelve thousand went by way of cape horn and some three thousand by way of
Chagres.* Those whose route was around the Horn met with few adventures, ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mastby Richard Henry Dana, (, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. by Richard Henry Dana, (, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. (2001)
"Originally published: Two years before the mast: a personal narrative. Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1840."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... first arrival—Good Success Bay—An Account of the Fuegians on board—Interview
with the Savages—Scenery of the Forests—cape horn—Wigwam Cove—Miserable ..."
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