Today, there are several major races held regularly along the clipper route.

This was the first solo circumnavigation using the clipper route.

Following the Clipper route, it starts and finishes in Barcelona.

For many years, it was a major milestone on the clipper route by which sailing ships carried trade around the world.

From the 18th to the early 20th centuries, Cape Horn was a part of the clipper routes which carried much of the world's trade.

The first person to attempt a high-speed circumnavigation of the clipper route was Francis Chichester.

Today, the capes feature prominently in ocean yacht racing, with many races and individual sailors following the clipper route.

Chichester's success inspired several others to attempt the next logical step: a non-stop single-handed circumnavigation along the clipper route.

The Volvo Ocean Race is a crewed race with stops which sails the clipper route every four years.

Historically, the cape has been known to sailors as a major hazard on the traditional clipper route and is sometimes regarded as one of the great capes.

The windjammers usually followed the clipper route around the world, ideally carrying different cargoes on each leg of their route, but most frequently sailing in ballast.

The clipper route fell into commercial disuse with the introduction of steam ships, and the opening of the Suez and Panama Canals.

During this time, the clipper route was established by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand.

It is a waypoint on the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and still followed by several offshore yacht races.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the standard trade clipper route from Australia and New Zealand to Europe took a line-of-latitude route in the Southern Ocean.

In December 1956 Miles and Beryl departed Melbourne on Tzu Hang to visit Clio at school in England, intending to follow the old clipper route.

She also became the first woman to single-handedly sail the clipper route, eastabout and south of the three great capes, starting and finishing in the English Channel (a requirement for speed records).

He followed the clipper route from Plymouth, United Kingdom, to Sydney, Australia, where he stopped over for 48 days, then continued south of Cape Horn back to Plymouth.

The traditional clipper route followed the winds of the roaring forties south of these capes; due to the significant hazards they presented to ships, they became significant landmarks in ocean voyaging.

Possibly the strangest yacht race ever run, it culminated in a successful non-stop circumnavigation by just one competitor, Robin Knox-Johnston, who became the first person to sail the clipper route single-handed and non-stop.

James' voyage is notable as she was the first woman to single-handedly sail the clipper route, eastabout and south of the three great capes; and she completed a fast (although not without outside assistance) circumnavigation in just 272 days.

From the experience gained in the service of these first clippers, the builder soon found the changes that were necessary in the design for the building of larger and faster ships demanded in 1850 for the California, China and Australia clipper routes.

In 1966, Chichester set out to sail around the world by the clipper route, starting and finishing in England with a stop in Sydney, in an attempt to beat the speed records of the clipper ships in a small boat.

In the process he became the first single-handed sailor to circumnavigate west-to-east, by the clipper route, with just one stop (of 48 days) in 274 days overall, with a sailing time of 226 days, twice as fast as the previous record for a small vessel.

The City Clipper route competed in some areas with the City Loop service, currently operated by A2B Express Travel, which began in 2001 and also the Uni-link City-Link service, both of which operate as a free service.