Cape Horn
or THE HORN, the extremity of an island of the same name, forming the extreme S. point of South Navigation round it is America. It is a dark, precipitous headland, 500 to 600 feet high, running far into the sea. Navigation round it is dangerous on account of frequent teminto the sea. da pests. The cape was first doubled in 1616 by Schouten, a native of Hoorn, in Holland, whence its name.
Holland, whence its name. CAPE MATAPAN, a promontory of Greece, forming the S. extremity of the Peloponnesus, in lat. 36° 23' N., lon. 22° Peloponnesus, in lat. 36° 23′ N., lon. 22° torium Tænarium, was applied by the Greeks to the headland, and to the small peninsula N. of it, connected with the per great Taygetic peninsula by a narrow isthmus.