Cape Horn is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island. Although not the most southerly point of South America, Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.
Cape Horn
View from an unidentified sailing ship during a storm at Cape Horn, between 1885 and 1954
Approaching Cape Horn from the south-west.
Cape Horn from aboard the sailboat "Tari II", photographed by Ingo Kühl, october 25, 2009
A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape. Headlands are characterised by high, breaking waves, rocky shores, intense erosion, and steep sea cliff.
Cape Malabata, Morocco
Cliffs at Beachy Head, England
Land's End, England
Point Reyes, California, USA