Cape Horn
Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America, Cape Horn marks both the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago located in Chile
- Also known as: “Cape Hoorn”, “Hoornský mys”, and “혼 곶”
Cape Horn
- Category: landform
- Location: Cabo de Hornos, Antártica Chilena Province, Region of Magallanes, Chile, South America
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Latitude
-55.97897° or 55° 58′ 44″ south
Longitude
-67.28903° or 67° 17′ 21″ west
UN/LOCODE
CL CHR
Open location code
37PJ2PC6+C9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Cape Horn” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaap Hoorn”
- Arabic: “كايب هورن”
- Arabic: “كيب 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 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: “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”
- 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: “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”
- Turkish: “Horn Burnu”
- Turkish: “Kap Horn”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Cabo de Hornos National Park.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Cape Horn Lighthouse and Stella Maris chapel.
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