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

The year is 1856 and they’re near Cape Horn, the most dangerous passage on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

From there, she continued east where Brauer faced the unpredictable, treacherous and deadly Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America before continuing northeast across the Atlantic Ocean toward Spain.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2024

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

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