After circumnavigating the globe between 1989-1992 in their single-engine aircraft, nicknamed Romeo, Gérard and Margi Moss went back on the skyways in 1997. Their objective this time was to reach the four compass points of the American continent.

Lat. S 53.54' Long. W 071.18'.
Nearest airport: Punta Arenas 
Cape Froward lies 100 km south of Punta Arenas, at the tip of the Brunswick Peninsula on the Strait of Magellan. On the mountaintop is a cross - Cruz de los Mares - erected in honour of Pope John Paul II. 

WESTERN TIP - CAPE PRINCE OF WALES, ALASKA

Lat. N 65.39' Long. W 168.08'.
Nearest airport: Wales 
This small Eskimo village lies close to Cape Prince of Wales. Just 80 km away, on the other side of the Bering Strait, is Russia's Chukchi Peninsula

NORTHERN TIP ZENITH POINT, CANADA

Lat. N 72.01' Long. W 094.39'.
Nearest airport: Taloyoak (formerly Spence Bay) 
Taloyoak is an Inuit community, 200 nautical miles above the Arctic Circle. Zenith Point lies 280 km further north, on the Bellot Strait at the tip of the Boothia Peninsula

EASTERN TIP PONTA DO SEIXAS, BRAZIL

Lat. S 07.09' Long. W 034.48'.
Nearest airport: João Pessoa 
The only tropical compass point of the four extremities of the continent, the palm-fringed sandy beach at Ponta do Seixas is washed by the warm green waters of the South Atlantic.