In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn
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The Famous Voyage: The Circumnavigation of the World, 1577-1580  On August 20, 1578, the ships began to traverse the Strait of Magellan, ... to show it until Cape Horn was rounded by Le Maire and Schouten a few years later. ... and to sail onward, first to Java, then across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of ... Pett sailed in an expedition sent out by the English Muscovy Company to...
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Rounding Cape Horn - GlobalSecurity.org  May 7, 2011 ... On August 20, 1578, the ships of Sir Francis Drake began to traverse the .... Sailing ships traditionally favored the Cape Horn route between the...
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Cape Horn - Wikipedia  Cape Horn named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands, is the southernmost headland of ... Sailing around the Horn is widely regarded as one of the major challenges in yachting. Thus, a .... Hemisphere), icebergs are generally confined to below 50 south; but in August the iceberg hazard can extend north of 40 south.
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The English horn is a large one (4) # Quiz # Question - YouTube  Jul 8, 2016 ... This horn-shaped peak's English name is derived from the name of the ... In August 1578 this English navigator sailed around Cape Horn...
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Cape Horn - New World Encyclopedia  Apr 5, 2013 ... ... thought to see Land's End. In September 1578, Sir Francis Drake, in the course of ... Clipper ships sailed round the Horn carrying wool, grain, and gold from ... Several factors combine to make the passage around Cape Horn one of ... south; but in August the iceberg hazard can extend north of 40 south.
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The Golden Hind Ship - Elizabethan Era  Famous Sir Francis Drake Ship - The first ship to circumnavigate the World ... Sir Francis Drake sailed in the Golden Hind Ship in his historic voyage around the World. ... of a fleet of five ships, set sail from Plymouth Sound in Devon, England in 1577. .... 1580 Jan 9: Ship struck reef; 8 cannon and 3 tons of cloves jettisoned.
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Portugal by Andrea Germain on Prezi  Nov 5, 2013 ... 1412  Prince Henry, the Navigator, orders the first expeditions to the African Coast ... 8 N on the African Coast and 40 W in the Atlantic (Sargasso Sea) in his lifetime. ... 1502  Returning from India, Vasco da Gama discovers the ... Portuguese sailors become the first Europeans to reach Madagascar.
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Golden Hind first English ship to sail around the world  Golden Hind with Captain Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the world between 1577 ... In his most famous ship, The Golden Hind, he became the first Englishman to ... was feared and reviled by the Spanish and was duly knighted in London.
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Willem Schouten | Dutch explorer | Britannica.com  Dutch explorer whose 161516 expedition discovered a new route, the ... His son Jakob and veteran sea captain Schouten led the voyage that set sail in ... He gave the southernmost tip of America the name Cape Horn (Dutch: Kaap Hoorn). ... of the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.
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Schouten rounding Cape Horn, 1616 - Stock Image C011/1878 ...  Schouten named the cape for his home town of Hoorn, but the name was later ... traversed in 1616 by the Dutch explorer Willem Schouten (c.1567-1625).
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Bartolomeu Dias Facts - SoftSchools  Bartolomeu Dias was the first European explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa discovering what is called the Cape of Good Hope. ... the southern tip of Africa in hopes of finding a trade route that would lead them to India. ... A terrible storm blew Dias' three ships out to sea and his crew did not spot land for 13 days.
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The Famous Voyage: The Circumnavigation of the World, 1577-1580  He sailed from Plymouth on Dec. ... Only one ship, the Golden Hind, made the complete voyage, returning on Sept. .... Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7 ... to the Pacific by a North East Passage, as far back as 1577, when Drake had left England. .... were marked on the terrestrial globe constructed by Emery Molyneux in 1592.
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Cape Horn facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  CAPE HORN is at the southernmost tip of South America, on Horn Island, one of Chile's ... Le Maire and Willem Schouten were the first to sail through Cape Horn, in 1616. ... From that time, the importance of the route around Cape Horn, used...
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Willem Schouten | Dutch explorer | Britannica.com  Willem Schouten, in full Willem Corneliszoon Schouten (born 1567?, Hoorn, Neth. ... He gave the southernmost tip of America the name Cape Horn (Dutch: Kaap ... that Schouten had discovered a new route westward and confiscated his cargo. ... the Dutch navigator Willem Corneliszoon Schouten, who rounded it in 1616.
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Cape Horn Patagonian News - Victory Cruises  Cape Horn is the southernmost point of South America . ... The cape was first rounded on January 26 ,1616 by a Dutch expedition of Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire . ... Callas had sailed from the most southern town in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina. ... dream of standing on the highest land around and at once
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Cape Horn - Wikipedia  Cape Horn named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands, 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 (which are the Diego Ramrez Islands) .... The Beagle Channel (named for the ship of Charles Darwin's expedition),...
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Willem Schouten - LiquiSearch  He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific Ocean. ... continent he named this point Kaap Hoorn (Cape Horn) after his hometown and his lost . ... Schouten described his travels in the Journal, published in a Dutch edition at...
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Research guide P3: Charts of the Spanish Armada by Robert Adams ...  The defeat in the Channel, of the mighty Spanish Armada by an English fleet in 1588, ... to assist in a proposed large-scale invasion of England, finally extinguished the ... The approaching ships were first sighted off the Lizard on the 29 July 1588 ... the English and Spanish fleets occurred off Plymouth on the 31 July 1588.
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The Age Of Discovery, Also Known As The Age Of Exploration  Two brothers from the powerful city of Venice, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, ... 480 BC - Sailed along NW coast of Africa, perhaps as far as Cape Palmas. Himilco: Carthage: about 500""400 BC - Explored SW coast of Europe N from C-diz, Spain. ... 1497""98 - Sailed around Cape of Good Hope to Malindi on E coast of Africa,...
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Willem Schouten - Revolvy  In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn , which he named after the recently ... Hoorn, and the Dutch city of Hoorn , after which the lost ship was named, the town in which ... South America 's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica . ... Rotterdam ) was a sailor from the Netherlands , who represented his native...
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Magellan Strait Historic Maps - Princeton University  (Later, this serendipitous discovery was named the Drake Passage; it offered the ... The discovery of the Le Maire Strait and Cape Horn by the Dutch mariners Jacques Le Maire and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten in 1616 at last provided explorers .... or even an eland or oryx from Africabut is out of place in South America.