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

Check out the Red Frog bar in Colfax and squeeze into the Cape Room overlooking a huge mountainside called Cape Horn.

From New York Times • May 3, 2023

Or head above the highway to Cape Horn Overlook for a safer stop and to spot peregrine falcons — their nesting closes trail portions until mid-July.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023

At sixteen he joined the merchant marine, and his first voyage took him around Cape Horn in the winter: it was his first experience of the Southern Ocean.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong