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I suspect that it simply took longer to sail around Cape Horn in South America (a dangerous and time-consuming journey) to get to the west coast of South Americ
by Maultasche 11y ago
I suspect that it simply took longer to sail around Cape Horn in South America (a dangerous and time-consuming journey) to get to the west coast of South America than it did to sail to New York, take a train to California, and hop on a ship to Honolulu.
- bmm6o 11y agoI had assumed that a trip to Hawaii would transit the Panama Canal, but you may be right about the route. WP says the canal opened in August 1914, so it might not be included here. I wonder how different a map made just a few years later would be.