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- Cape Horn island ( Kaap Hoorn ; Cabo de Hornos ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
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- Cape Horn island ( Kaap Hoorn ; Cabo de Hornos ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra ...25 KB (3,990 words) - 19:32, 25 November 2023
- The Horn of Africa is a large extension of land that protrudes from ... In a more general way, the term "Horn of Africa" is also ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- Inside Passage of Alaska. Southward from Cape Froward, the principal shipping ... is at the point of alignment of the Phillip Cape in the southern extreme of ...20 KB (2,965 words) - 04:44, 28 April 2023
- far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island ... km²). The distance across the Strait from Cape York to New Guinea is approximately ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- (or Cooke). Cook entered the Pacific via Cape Horn and spent a year raiding ... Dampier returned to England in 1691 via the Cape of Good Hope, penniless but ...11 KB (1,611 words) - 15:57, 7 May 2023
- Africa, particularly in eastern northern Cape and Free State (Taylor 2004 ... (35 inches), while the female's horn width is about half the size ...11 KB (1,661 words) - 21:08, 21 November 2022
- ranges from central Peru in the north to Cape Horn and the Estrecho de le ... The African Clawless Otter (Aonyx capensis), also known as the Cape ...15 KB (2,407 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- Africa. They sailed south, rounded the Cape heading west, made their way ... was also steady; Portuguese sailors reached Cape Bojador in 1434 and Cape Blanco ...29 KB (4,463 words) - 06:53, 12 September 2023
- long and treacherous route via the Drake Passage and Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America. A ship sailing from New York to San Francisco ...22 KB (3,431 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- Island nations such as the Seychelles, Cape Verde, and Mauritius, have ... times the poorest region has been the Horn of Africa, although it had ...18 KB (2,657 words) - 21:07, 26 February 2023
- the route south of Tierra del Fuego around Cape Horn was not discovered until ... the tip of Africa, eventually rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and reached ...19 KB (3,035 words) - 04:49, 9 April 2024
- striking features—Gulf of San Matias, Cape of 11,000 Virgins (now simply ... named the southernmost tip of Argentina’s Cape Horn after his hometown, Hoorn. ...22 KB (3,265 words) - 18:56, 23 March 2023
- The southern point of the archipelago forms Cape Horn. Its main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, is shaped like a triangle with its base ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 23:33, 30 April 2023
- returned the General Sherman which traveled around Cape Horn to Boston, and was sold to William F. Well Co. in 1868. After serving as a cargo ship, the ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 08:01, 23 January 2023
- involved taking passage on a ship rounding Cape Horn of South America, or to the Isthmus (now Panama) between North and South America. There ...14 KB (2,196 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Geograpsus crinipes, are also common. Horn-eyed ghost crabs, Ocypode ... the coconut plantation from Indonesia, the Cape of Good Hope and East Asia ...29 KB (4,147 words) - 22:20, 7 January 2024
- After trying unsuccessfully for a month to round Cape Horn, the Bounty was finally defeated by the notoriously stormy weather and forced to take the ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- However, upon first landing at what is now Cape Henry on April 26, 1607, the ... *Horn, James. A Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America ...17 KB (2,676 words) - 07:51, 3 August 2022
- The British sent troops from all over the empire to Cape Town. By ... 28, the king was captured and sent to Cape Town. (It is said that scouts ...42 KB (6,753 words) - 06:01, 28 July 2023
- 000 B.C.E., and humans are thought to have reached Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America by this time. All theories agree that the Inuit and ...20 KB (2,974 words) - 22:17, 30 November 2022
