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Cape Horn: tags: [geography]

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The southernmost tip of mainland Chile.

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The whalers soon discovered that there weren't that many women of the nikiranroro* class and that the licentious reputation of Tahiti was well deserved, and like apparently every other male who rounded Cape Horn in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whalers too began seeking most of their entertainment in Polynesia.

J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.116 (2004)

^{*nikiranroro - Kiribatese word for fallen women who were not quite married and not quite virginal.}

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Hyacinth: If we can't have the red carpet, could you blow your horn?

Richard: No! The commodore sailed 'round the Horn, single-handed!

Hyacinth: There you are, you see? 'round the Horn, single-handed! And he has to come here to an unmarked platform. Haven't you got a band?

Station master: No madam!

Hyacinth: Can't you even find a porter who can play the mouth organ?

BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: The Commodore (1993)