Cape Horn from the
air on a still day (click)

The world's most Southern town, Puerto Willams, Chile is only 60 miles North ->

'Rounding the Horn' by sail on a quiet day

Satellite image showing Horn Routes from Puerto Williams, Chile, the gateway to Cape Horn

(These routes may encompass the Murray Channel or via Isla Lennox)

There is a good route that takes you to the Horn for Chilean flag yachts only with a stop at historic Orange Bay. This goes via a Channel between Wollaston island and Grevy Island. See in Google Earth at 55 39' S, 67 34' W.

A couple of comments found on the Internet about sailing Cape Horn:

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There is always a cape waiting for you in life, but if it is Cape Horn, the cape at the southern tip of the American continent and if you are lucky enough to round it, then you will never forget it.

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There are four or five places all over the world in the presence of which man feels perturbed, surrounded as they are by a perennial mystical aura of spirituality. If, as it is the case of Cape Horn, they are the craved destination, the obliged passage, the insuperable difficulty, everything takes the aspect and the importance of the sanctuary and of the unconsciously supernatural place. After all, its positioning of 55°56' south and 67°19' west, the particular orographic formation and the intensity of atmospheric phenomena which surround it, turn Cape Horn unique and matchless. Cape Horn, loved and hated by seamen over the last four hundred years.

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