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- proper noun the southernmost headland of the
Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southernChile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
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Examples
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River Camp stood at a bend in the Colorado known as Cape Horn.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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River Camp stood at a bend in the Colorado known as Cape Horn.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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But he ran into a storm as he got close to Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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In fact, he set off from long beach, California back in October, but he ran into a big storm as he approached Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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He set off from Long Beach, California, but he ran into a big storm as he approached Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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He set off from Long Beach, California back in October, but then he ran into a big storm as he got close to Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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But then he ran into a big storm as he got close to Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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Ran into a storm, though, as he approached Cape Horn, which is 500 miles off the coast of Chile.
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(Castro apparently loses his place -- ed.) no, it says: From the Rio Grande to Cape Horn, that is, in Latin American territory, one coffin of every two contains the remains of a child who has died before reaching five years of age.
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Under such conditions, it appears that the only extensive body of shallow water extending from the ice-clad southern continent is the shoal channel which separates the South Shetlands from Cape Horn, which is a region of great snowfall.
Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891 Various
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