Hoorn William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-15-20

Cape Horn, the very tip of South America where the Atlantic meets Pacific and what clipper ships braved in days of yore, is not named for the pointy things on the heads of bulls and bisons but for the town of Hoorn in Holland.

That was the home of navigator and merchant Willem Cornelisz Schouten, who was part of an enterprise in 1615 to find a route to the Pacific not controlled by the Dutch East India Company.

Yes Anthony, it was Schouten not Sir Francis Drake who made the discovery.

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Hoorn William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-15-20

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