Archipelego: Cape Horn Fever
"We shall head south along the coast until we reach the end of it."
Ikonov had it in his head: that we would sail around Cape Horn, circumnavigate South America, and loop back around through the Panama Canal. I studied the various maps and marveled at the miles in between. That our expedition would travel so far seemed impossible and unlikely to me then, though the captain had to his name seven such trips, each made in fewer than one hundred days. The "journey to the end of the world", he called it.
Ikonov had it in his head: that we would sail around Cape Horn, circumnavigate South America, and loop back around through the Panama Canal. I studied the various maps and marveled at the miles in between. That our expedition would travel so far seemed impossible and unlikely to me then, though the captain had to his name seven such trips, each made in fewer than one hundred days. The "journey to the end of the world", he called it.
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