According to estimates, the extremely difficult seas off Cape Horn were fatal to more than 800 ships and more than 10,000 people and became the largest ship graveyard in the world. To commemorate this

A monument was erected on the cape for sailors, depicting a stylized albatross. A poem by Chilean poet Sara Vial for the drowned can be found on a plaque nearby:

"I am the albatross waiting for you at the end of the world.

I am the forgotten soul of the dead sailors

who sailed to Cape Horn from all the seas of the earth.

But they didn't die in the raging waves

for now they fly on my wings forever into eternity,

at the deepest abyss the Antarctic storm howls.

Translated by Google •

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