Region of Magallanes
Antártica Chilena Province
Cabo de Hornos

Cape Horn

Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the archipelago of southern , and is located on the small . Although not the most southerly point of , Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago located in Chile
  • Also known as: “Cape Hoorn”

Cape Horn

Latitude
-55.97897° or 55° 58′ 44″ south
Longitude
-67.28903° or 67° 17′ 21″ west
United Nations Location Code
CL CHR
Open location code
37PJ2PC6+C9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3943254242
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
3887850
Wiki­data ID
Q4078
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Cape Horn” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kaap Hoorn”
  • Arabic: “كايب هورن”
  • Armenian: “Հոռն հրվանդան”
  • Asturian: “Cabu d’Hornos”
  • Asturian: “Cabu de Fornos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Horn burnu”
  • Basque: “Hornos lurmuturra”
  • Belarusian: “Горн”
  • Belarusian: “мыс Горн”
  • Bengali: “কেপ হর্ন”
  • Bosnian: “Rt Horn”
  • Breton: “Kab Horn”
  • Bulgarian: “Нос Хорн”
  • Bulgarian: “Хорн”
  • Catalan: “Cap d’Hornos”
  • Catalan: “Cap Horn”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Horn (punta sa Chile)”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Horn”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەیپ ھۆرن”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیپ هۆڕن”
  • Chinese: “合恩角”
  • Croatian: “Rt Horn”
  • Czech: “Hoornský mys”
  • Czech: “mys Horn”
  • Czech: “Mys Horn”
  • Danish: “Kap Horn”
  • Dutch: “Kaap Hoorn”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيب هورن”
  • Esperanto: “Horna Kabo”
  • Estonian: “Hoorni neem”
  • Finnish: “Kap Horn”
  • French: “cap Horn”
  • French: “Cap Horn”
  • Galician: “Cabo de Fornos”
  • Georgian: “ჰორნის კონცხი”
  • German: “Kap Hoorn”
  • German: “Kap Horn”
  • Greek: “Ακρωτήριο Χορν”
  • Hebrew: “כף הורן”
  • Hindi: “हॉर्न अंतरीप”
  • Hungarian: “Horn-fok”
  • Icelandic: “Hornhöfði”
  • Ido: “Kabo Horn”
  • Indonesian: “Tanjung Horn”
  • Irish: “Rinn an Choirn”
  • Italian: “Capo Horn”
  • Japanese: “ホーン岬”
  • Kabardian: “Къуапэ Горн”
  • Kazakh: “Горн мүйісі”
  • Korean: “혼 곶”
  • Korean: “혼곶”
  • Latin: “Hornanum Caput”
  • Latvian: “Horna rags”
  • Latvian: “Hornas rags”
  • Literary Chinese: “合恩角”
  • Lithuanian: “Horno kyšulys”
  • Lithuanian: “Horno ragas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kap Hoorn”
  • Macedonian: “’Рт Хорн”
  • Macedonian: “Хорн”
  • Malay: “Cape Horn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kap Hoorn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Horn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kapp Horn”
  • Norwegian: “Kapp Horn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cap Hòrn”
  • Persian: “دماغه هورن”
  • Polish: “Horn”
  • Portuguese: “Cabo Horn”
  • Quechua: “Urnu ñawch’i”
  • Romanian: “Capul Horn”
  • Russian: “Горн”
  • Russian: “мыс Горн”
  • Scots: “Cape Horn”
  • Serbian: “Рт Хорн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rt Horn”
  • Shona: “Kepi Yerunyanga”
  • Slovak: “Hornský mys”
  • Slovenian: “Rt Horn”
  • Spanish: “Cabo de Hornos”
  • Swahili: “Rasi Hoorn”
  • Swedish: “Kap Horn”
  • Swiss German: “Kap Hoorn”
  • Tamil: “ஹார்ன் முனை”
  • Tatar: “Һорн борыны”
  • Thai: “แหลมฮอร์น”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kap Hoorn”
  • Turkish: “Horn Burnu”
  • Turkish: “Kap Horn”
  • Ukrainian: “Горн”
  • Ukrainian: “мис Горн”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Горн”
  • Urdu: “راس ہورن”
  • Uzbek: “Gorn”
  • Vietnamese: “Cape Horn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cape Horn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kabo Horn”
  • Welsh: “Yr Horn”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaap Hoarn”
  • Wu Chinese: “合恩角”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cape Horn”. Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.