Francis Drake landed on Horn Island by mistake

Francis Drake is a navigator who was pushed far to the south by a storm in 1577 after crossing the Strait of Magellan. His Portuguese pilot Nuño da Silva estimated their position at the 57th parallel south, but the calculation errors of the time indicate that they instead landed on Horn Island at 55° 59′ latitude. This episode of imprecise navigation left its name to the open sea located south of Cape Horn, christened the Drake Passage.