the most

Cape of Good Hope

Cape Horn

Cape Leeuwin

DANGEROUS

the most

PLACES

for sailors

DANGE
ROUS

cape of

cape

through these 3 places

Every true sailor goes

2

1

3

GOOD HOPE

cape of

LEEUWIN

cape

HORN

cape

Rocky promontory at the southern end of Cape Peninsula, Western Cape province, South Africa.

HOPE

GOOD

cape of

In fact, the southernmost point of Africa is Cape Agulhas about 150 kilometres to the east-southeast.

Africa
Latitude 34°21′33″ South
Longitude 18°28′21″ East
Republic of South Africa
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese navigator
1488

Continent
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Discoverer

Year of discovery

The Cape of Storms

The short windows that open with different winds are fleeting, shut down quickly and the prevailing headwinds return.

The dreaded South-Eastern blows here.

ships are crashed here

300

For the ancient sailing ships and clippers, approaching the Cape following the African coast meant encountering very strong headwinds. This made the Cape difficult to round despite several attempts.

SS THOMAS T TUCKER. CAPE POINT NATURE RESERVE. DATE OF WRECK — 1942

1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000

francs, pounds sterling etc. — value of sunken goodsships are crashed here

The Cape of Ghosts

“I shall round this damned Cape, even if I have to sail until Doomsday comes.”

year
when Flying Dutchman started it’s endless rounds the Cape

1641

According to legend, these were the words of Captain Hendrick van den Decken when his crew begged him to take shelter in Table Bay during his attempt to sail around the Cape of Storm on a stormy day.

The Flying Dutchman is said to appear as a ghostly, glowing ship. It will materialise suddenly and then, just as suddenly, vanish. Some claim that seeing the Flying Dutchman is a sign of horrible misfortune to come.

francs, pounds sterling etc. —
value of sunken goodsships
are crashed here

francs, pounds sterling etc. —
value of sunken goodsships are crashed here

The sailor who rounded the Cape of Good Hope was allowed to put his feet on the table in a tavern.

The most south-westerly (but not most southerly) mainland point of the Australian continent.

LEEUWIN

cape

The southernmost point of Western Australia is West Cape Howe, which is to the southeast, near Albany.

The Leeuwin means The Lioness in Dutch.

Australia
Latitude 34°22′27″ South
Longitude 115°08′09″ East
Western Australia
Matthew Flinders
English navigator
1622

Continent
Coordinates

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Discoverer

Year of discovery

shipwrecks happened before the lighthouse was built, and only two after.

23

There are treacherous currents, strong winds and numerous rocks emerging from the water around. The idea of building a lighthouse was discussed since 1881 and only 14 years later construction began.

If a sailor passed
the Cape Leeuwin
he was supposed to...

At this place, no one, even Google, even experienced sailors, my friends, can say anything definite. If you have this information — let me know please!

Visitors can enjoy a coffee or delicious
light refreshments in the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse Café

The English navigator Matthew Flinders named Cape Leeuwin after the first known ship to have visited the area, the Leeuwin ("Lioness"), a Dutch vessel that charted some of the nearby coastline in 1622.

HORN

cape

Cape Horn 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, Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet.

In fact the most southerly point of South America is the Diego Ramírez Islands.

20 March 2022 08:39. From my personal archive

South America
Latitude 55°58′48″ South
Longitude 67°17′21″ East
Chili
Willem Schouten
Dutch navigator
1616

Continent
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Discoverer

Year of discovery

20 March 2022 07:20. my FRIEND'S PHOTO

20 March 2022 10:24.
From my personal archive

20 March 2022 06:52. my FRIEND'S PHOTO

20 March 2022 08:17.
From my personal archive

The Graveyard of Ships

The Horn has long been known as a sailor’s graveyard due to the strong winds and currents, large waves and icebergs. It's subject to strong westerly winds — “fierce fifties”.