We have thus far, to my knowledge, not seen disruptions in, for instance in the Suez, which obviously is tremendously important to the movement of goods around the Cape of Good Horn.

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Storm systems were moving in from either side, but there was a lull between them that let us barrel through at a considerable average speed of 11 knots, returning so far ahead of schedule that the captain detoured to give us a view of Cape Horn.

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The voyage took the boat in an easterly direction around the globe, leaving the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to the left before finishing across the same line as they started from.

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Weary of being targets for every pirate in the Caribbean, Spain decided from then on to ship its New World plunder the long way around, via Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America.

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We were due to proceed from Port Stanley in the Falklands to the world's southernmost city, the Argentine port of Ushuaia, on February 27, having passed Cape Horn on the way.

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But they're also among the rarest raptors in the world, with an estimated population of about a thousand pairs, most of which are probably in the Falklands, where on nearly inaccessible islands near Cape Horn.

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