Crossword-Solution: DESEADO 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Possibly at this moment Luis de Leon looked forward to a period of learned leisure: O ya seguro puerto de mi tan luengo error! o deseado para reparo cierto del grave mal pasado, reposo dulce, alegre, reposado! If the author of this opening stanza of _Al apartamiento_ were optimistic enough to assume that these verses might be applied to his own case, he was destined to be speedily disillusioned.

And then, at Cape Deseado, the unbroken highway to the fabled East, which had been closed against Columbus, opened before him.

What must have been his joy, when about ten leagues more had been made good, on the 28th of November, 1520, as rounding a point to which he gave the name of Cape Deseado, he saw the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean spreading out to the westward.

The beet-known among them are Puerto Deseado (Port Desire) at the mouth of the Deseado river (1253 m.), Santa Cruz, at the mouth of the Santa Cruz river (1481 m.), and Ushuaia, on Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego.

The land appeared to be high and mountainous, as far as Cape Deseado, whence it seemed lower and more broken, forming a large bay between that cape and Cape Sunday.