False Cape Horn

The False Cape Horn (Spanish Falso Cabo de Hornos ) is a headland on the Chilean island Hoste. The False Cape Horn thus represents the southernmost point of the larger islands of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago Represents the False Cape Horn belongs administratively to the Región de Magallanes y Antártica Chilena de la.

It is named this headland in the time of shipping, as it was often with the "real" Cape Horn (56 kilometers to the southeast) confounded. From the west via the Clipper route incoming ships saw in False Cape Horn, the structure of the real Cape Horn, and she - to have reached the Drake Passage in the faith - to the east sailed on the Wollaston Islands. This error sank several ships.

The cape is located in the Alberto De Agostini National Park.