The strong winds of the Southern Ocean give rise to correspondingly large waves; [...], the area west of the Horn is particularly notorious for rogue waves, which can attain heights of up to 30 metres (100 ft). Wikipedia

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The 425-meter rock face of Cape Horn at the southernmost point of Horn Island, Chile. Its precise geographical location is the southern headland of Horn Island, in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the bottom of South America, Chile.

Cape Horn lore is extensive, full of fear and fascination—summed up in the sailor’s motto “below 40 South there is no law, below 50 South there is no God.”

At this spot the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet, often in a confrontation. No land to the east, none to the west—winds sweep all the way around the world from the west. The closest arm of Antarctica, Graham Land of the Antarctic Peninsula, lies six hundred miles to the south across the roughest stretch of water known on the planet, Drake Passage. Since its discovery by the Dutch mariners Jacques Le Maire and Willem Cornelisz Schouten in 1616, Cape Horn has become known as the graveyard of ships.

[...]. As ships got larger, they could not navigate the Magellan Strait and had to risk “rounding the Horn,” a phrase that has acquired almost mythical status. For most mariners, it means sailing windward, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, fighting winds, waves, and currents, for sailing with the wind is strategically simpler and carries no bragging rights.

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Simpson river National Reserve is a national reserve of southern Chile's Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. Wikipedia

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In 1992, on a hilltop of Horn Island, a monument to the memory of the mariners lost in the waters off Cape Horn was erected, financed with both public and private funds from Chile and many other countries. The interior outline of its facing steel sheets form the image of a wandering albatross in flight; a nearby marble plaque is inscribed with a Spanish poem by Chilean Sara Vial:

I am the albatross that waits for you
at the end of the world.
I am the forgotten souls of dead mariners
who passed Cape Horn
from all the oceans of the earth.
But they did not die
in the furious waves.
Today they sail on my wings
toward eternity,
in the last crack
of Antarctic winds.

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Coyhaique, also spelled Coihaique in Patagonia, is the capital city of both the Coyhaique Province and the Aysén Region of Chile. Founded by settlers in 1929, it is a young city. Wikipedia

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