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| 6.3.2010 |
Before we sail round the Kap Hoorn all guests can baptized for a man of Fireland. Every guest get pour all the icecold water from Kap Hoorn by the captain.
We approach Kap Hoorn, the southernmost point of south america. Kap Hoorn finds at 55° 59' south latitude and 67° 16' west longitude. The point finds at the island Isla Hornos. South of Kap Hoorn is the point where the atlantic and pasific, warm and cold water meets. This causes a strong flow to the east. At the same time form warm and cold air which meet at this point as well. The effect are low pressure areas which can generate hurricanes up to 160 km/h. General the weather is subpolar, is's cool and very damp and it rains 280 days in a year. The temperature fluctuates between 5 and 10 °C, by day infrequent more warm then 12 to 13 °C. At winter frost is casual only, snowfall hardly ever. The water temperature almost at 6 °C.
