Now I ask you, after it had been wounded west of America, how could this animal be killed in the east, unless it had cleared the equator and doubled Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope?
It was obvious that Captain Nemo wanted to carry out his underwater program, and I had no doubt that he intended, after doubling Cape Horn, to return to the Pacific South Seas.
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Gillen met and worked with Walter Baldwin Spencer, a Lancashire-born biologist and anthropologist studying Arendta, who used Gillen's term in his 1896 account of an expedition to Cape Horn.
And he may well have been the first person in history to spot Cape Horn, but he certainly established that there was an ocean passage south, a passage that still bears his name to this day.
And the only place that they kind of impact any land on that journey is at this place called Cape Horn, which is the southern tip of the South American coastline.
I'd gotten past Cape Horn, I'd gotten past the Iceberg Alley, I'd crossed the South Atlantic, which was notoriously dangerous, and it was about 3,000 nautical miles of sailing left to do.
No English ship had ever left the Atlantic before, and we should say in this period going to the Pacific meant not going around Cape Horn, because that hadn't been discovered yet.