DEFINITION OF CAPE HORN AND THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN

The southern tip

of South America has consistently horrid weather with high

winds, rain and ice storms, and large sea waves. Southernmost

South America is a large island archipelago known as

Tierra del Fuego, separated from the mainland by the Strait

of Magellan, and the southern tip of which is known as Cape

Horn. The Drake passage separates Cape Horn from the

northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. Tierra del Fuego and

the Strait of Magellan were discovered by Magellan in 1520,

and settled by Europeans, Argentineans, and Chileans after

the discovery of gold in the 1880s. These peoples brought

diseases that spread to and killed off all of the indigenous

people of the islands.

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