In 1920, after 39 years of problems with diseases, high cost and politics, The Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal zone instead of traveling some seven thousands miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal and costs an average of fifteen thousand dollars, one tenth of what it would cost an average ship to round the Cape Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships pass through its locks each year.
How long is the Cape Horn?
Select one:
a. seven thousand miles
b. nine thousand miles
c. eight thousand miles
d. five thousand miles