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单词 Horn, Cape
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Horn, Cape

the southernmost point of South America, on a Chilean island south of Tierra del Fuego. The region is notorious for its storms, and until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 constituted the only sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
合恩角(南美洲的最南端, 在智利火地岛南面的一个岛上, 以风暴著名; 在1914年巴拿马运河开通前是连接大西洋和太平洋的唯一海路)。亦称 THE HORN.
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named after Hoorn, the birthplace of the Dutch navigator William C. Schouten who discovered it in 1616.
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