What explorer sailed around Cape Horn?

Question

was it: Vasco de Balboa, Pedro Cabral, Christopher Columbus, Bartholomeu Dias, Sir Francis Drake, Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan...

Answer 1

Jacob Le Maire was the first person to round Cape Horn in 1617. You can read about him at:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Le_Maire


****Edit to the first responder to the question: Bartholmeu Dias was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, around the tip of Africa, in 1488, not Cape Horn, which is around the tip of South America. Also, Dias is an accepted spelling of his name, along with Diaz according to the Encyclopedia Britannica

Perhaps the person that posed the question is mistaken with which Cape they need information for. I do know for sure though that Jacob Le Maire was the first to sail around Cape Horn though because he was the first person to prove that Tierra del Fuego was not a continent like was believed. ****

Answer 2

Sailing Around The Horn

Answer 3

The Cape Horn is at the southern tip of South America. Therefore, going West, the explorer would be sailing from the South Atlantic to the South Pacific ocean.

Answer 4

Hannah gets it right......to sum up all the other answers....Diaz was first around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa.

Magellan found a passage through the islands NORTH of Cape Horn and the mainland of South America which is today known as the Straits of Magellan.......and how he got his five ships thru that treacherous dangerous God forsaken body of water is one of the great feats of seamanship of the last five hundred years..
Drake, coming along some hundred years later followed on thru the Straits, NOT around Cape Horn.....

Answer 5

Answer - None of the above mentioned explorers sailed around Cape Horn.

As indicated by others, it's none of the above. Magellan was the first to travel south around south America on the first ever known circumnavigation of the globe (which he by the way did not complete as he was killed in the Phillipines). However, he did not go around Cape Horn, but through the straights of Magellan. Decades later, Drake was the second to circumnavigate also using the Straights of Magellan. However, he theorized, that the landmass to his south was only an island and that there was a larger passage south of that (Thus the passage between Cape Horn and Anartica was named after Drake even though he himself did not pass through it.)

Note this question doesn't ask who was first, just who did. I believe none of the explorers mentioned here ever rounded Cape Horn. However, following in the footsteps of these explorerers, many would pass throught he Drake Passage and round Cape Horn, though I imagine few of them actually sailed AROUND it. Most I'm sure were happy to have the passage behind them and continue on their way without feeling the need to circle back through the straights of magellan to sail around the horn.

Answer 6

Magellan's expedition was the first recorded to have circum-navigated the globe, in 1521 (he died on the expedition, so his second-in-command, del Cano, completed it) so he must have rounded Cape Horn.

Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe in 1577-8 and kept meticulous records of his route, much of which was actually kept secret because of political considerations (England was at war with Spain at the time)

Answer 7

Magellan. Cape of Good Hope is Africa. Cape Horn South America. Drake did almost a century later and even used an execution platform Magellan used for mutineer's again for his own. Sorry, I don't recall if they beheaded them or hung them. That is why I said platform not Gallows's.

Answer 8

"The first European navigator to achieve circumnavigation of the Cape was the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488."

"South Africa : History" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_africa#History

"Dias also spelled DIAZ , Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans."

"Dias, Bartolomeu" : Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000