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Cape Horn: A Mariner’s Nightmare

Ferocious winds and huge waves have long made it perilous to navigate around the southernmost tip of South America.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 24, 2017
Data acquired July 12, 2014

Source:
Landsat 8 > OLI