Cape Horn

American  

noun

1. a headland on a small island at the southern extremity of South America: belongs to Chile.

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Cape Horn British  

noun

1. Also called: the Horn.  a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific

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Example Sentences

Miranda wanted to lead a Latin American revolution, and create from Spain’s former colonies a grand republic of Colombia stretching from Cape Horn to California.

From Barron's • Jan. 18, 2026

Merchant Marine Academy still teaches cadets the story of Mary Ann Patten taking a clipper ship around Cape Horn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

The 51-mile-long canal avoids the need for ships to make the much longer voyage around Cape Horn at the tip of South America.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025

Late 2023 The virus rounds Cape Horn and moves north into Argentina and Uruguay, killing sea lions and seals and eventually reaching southern Brazil.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024

And Europe’s chancelleries for the next century played a chess game of naked exploitation and power from Cape Horn to Cairo.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey