[DOC] [TLE] Willem Schouten - Wikipedia [PAR] Willem Cornelisz Schouten (c. 1567  1625) was a Dutch navigator for the Dutch 
East India Company. He was the first to sail the Cape Horn route to the Pacific 
Ocean. ... In 1615 Willem Cornelisz Schouten and his younger brother Jan 
Schouten ... In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn, which he named after the 
recently... [DOC] [TLE] Cape Horn - Wikipedia [PAR] Cape Horn named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands, 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 (which are the Diego ... Thus, a few recreational sailors continue to sail 
this route, sometimes as part... [DOC] [TLE] Description of the New Route to the South of the Strait of Magellan ... [PAR] Oct 19, 2015 ... In June 1615, Dutch navigators Jacob Le Maire (circa 15851616) and ... 
Europeans to round the extreme southern point of South America, known ... 
which they named Cape Horn in honor of Schouten's birthplace, the city of Hoorn. 
... of the marvelous voyage of Willem Schouten, a Dutch native of Hoorn,... [DOC] [TLE] Magellan Strait Historic Maps - Princeton University [PAR] (Later, this serendipitous discovery was named the Drake Passage; it offered the 
... The discovery of the Le Maire Strait and Cape Horn by the Dutch mariners 
Jacques Le Maire and Willem Corneliszoon Schouten in 1616 at last provided 
explorers .... or even an eland or oryx from Africabut is out of place in South 
America. [DOC] [TLE] Willem Schouten - Revolvy [PAR] In 1616 Schouten rounded Cape Horn , which he named after the recently ... 
Hoorn, and the Dutch city of Hoorn , after which the lost ship was named, the 
town in which ... South America 's Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of 
Antarctica . ... Rotterdam ) was a sailor from the Netherlands , who represented 
his native... [DOC] [TLE] Cape Horn - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Apr 5, 2013 ... Next (Cape Town) ... The southern part of South America, including Cape Horn 
island, the Drake ... his ships encountered a storm, and were blown well to the 
south of ... a wealthy Amsterdam merchant and Willem Schouten, a ship's master 
... Cape Horn was originally given the Dutch name "Kaap Hoorn," in... [DOC] [TLE] CAP HORN, TOUGH CAPE | Jules Verne - Spindrift racing [PAR] Sitting at the southern end of South America, 55 58' South and 67 38' East, 
Cape Horn ... the Dutch fitted out two ships commanded by Willem Schouten and 
funded by Jacob ... aim: January 31st, 1616, around midday: we rounded a cape 
formed by two pointed ... The captain gave it the name of his home town of Hoorn. [DOC] [TLE] Cruise round the Horn for a Cape escape - Telegraph [PAR] Jan 7, 2016 ... The albatross is down, said a sailor, pointing to the shore. I followed his ... The 
best South America cruises for 2016 ... On January 29 1616, Jakob Le Maire and 
Willem Schouten rounded the most southerly of the Southern Ocean's great 
capes, naming it Hoorn after the Dutch town of that name. Having... [DOC] [TLE] 1606 - 1619 - The Discovery and Exploration of Australia [PAR] Dutch Exploration: Discoveries and Encounters ... Admiral Wolphert Harmensz 
gave skipper, Willem Cornelisz Schouten, and uppersteersman ... In fact he was 
now following the coast of Australia south along Cape York Peninsula. .... 
rounded Cape Horn, (named by Le Maire after his home town and ship) and 
headed west. [DOC] [TLE] ocean education  Around the Americas [PAR] Jan 23, 2010 ... The dot on the exclamation point that is South America, it's the ... It's been called 
the Mt. Everest of Sailing, and the list of sailors who've ... It was almost forty years 
later, in January of 1616, that the Dutch merchant mariner Willem Schouten .... 
who has handled communications flawlessly in his native tongue. [DOC] [TLE] Cape Crusaders - The wild tip of South America

Question: In 1616 Dutch sailor Willem Schouten named this South American cape for his native town
Answer: Cape Horn