The southernmost tip of the South American continent is Cape Horn. It is located on an island known in Spanish as Isla Hornos about 70 miles (110 kilometers) south of Tierra del Fuego and is the southern end of the Andes Mountains. The island is administratively part of the Antártica Chilena province of Chile. The cape is very rocky with cliffs of granite covered with peat and dense thickets of evergreen. 

Well, listen up fact fans – because here’s everything you need to know about the place that Charles Darwin wrote “is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about shipwrecks, peril and death”.

Something to write home about. Cape Horn,  is regarded by sailors as the most iconic and feared landmark in the world. 

What makes it so challenging? It’s cold, it’s bleak and it’s dangerous. It’s home to biblical storms and gale force winds, making visibility difficult. Oh, and lying just 500 miles from Antarctica, look out for the odd iceberg too.