Body of water between South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica
Drake Passage showing the boundary points A, B, C, D, E and F accorded by the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and ArgentinaTourist expedition ship sailing across the Drake Passage to AntarcticaDepth profile with salinity and temperature for surface
The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean. The passage is named after the 16th-century English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake.
The Drake Passage is considered one of the most treacherous voyages for ships to make. Currents at its latitude meet no resistance from any landmass, and waves top 40 feet (12 m), giving it a reputation for being "the most powerful convergence of seas".[1]
As the Drake Passage is the narrowest passage (choke point) around Antarctica, its existence and shape strongly influence the circulation of water around Antarctica and the global oceanic circulation, as well as the global climate. The bathymetry of the Drake Passage plays an important role in the global mixing of oceanic water.
^"6 men become 1st to cross perilous Drake Passage unassisted". AP NEWS. Associated Press. 2019-12-28. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
The DrakePassage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects...
Thought to have formed during the early Eocene with the opening of the DrakePassage that separates Antarctica and South America, it is a minor plate whose...
DrakePassage may also have been in place by the end of the early Oligocene. This may have been interrupted by a temporary constriction of the Drake Passage...
(which is Águila Islet), Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the DrakePassage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. Cape Horn was...
the Discovery Channel. It follows explorers as they row across the DrakePassage and become the first in history to do so. The journey took 12 days and...
Fiann Paul led the first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the DrakePassage (The Impossible Row) and, in doing so, he completed the row on his fifth...
is now compulsory. The strait is shorter and more sheltered than the DrakePassage, the often stormy open sea route around Cape Horn, which is beset by...
involving the separation of Antarctica from South America (forming the DrakePassage) and Australia, occurred during the Paleogene (from around 66 to 23...
interrupt the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean where intersected by DrakePassage which includes all of the waters from South America to the Antarctic...
two otherwise. Argentina's oceans include the Southern Ocean if the DrakePassage is considered part of it and the Pacific Ocean if its waters are considered...
through DrakePassage and therefore circumpolar. The bulk of the transport is carried in the middle two fronts. The total transport of the ACC at Drake Passage...
2019, he led the first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the DrakePassage, and the first human-powered expedition on the Southern Ocean. As of...
of Magellan to the north, and the open-ocean DrakePassage to the south are the three navigable passages around South America between the Pacific and...
of North America and the Phoenix Plate to a small remnant near the DrakePassage, and destroyed the Izanagi Plate by subduction under Asia. The Pacific...
Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, part of the DrakePassage, Gulf of Mexico, Labrador Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian...
rowing crew that completed the first-ever human-powered crossing of the DrakePassage between Cape Horn in South America and Antarctica in December 2019....
connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the DrakePassage to the south. The Colorado and Barrancas rivers, which run from the...
hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the DrakePassage or Strait of Magellan. It is one of the largest and most difficult engineering...
the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the DrakePassage to the south. The country also controls several Pacific islands, including...
tip of South America, is about 1,000 km (620 miles) away across the DrakePassage. The Antarctic Peninsula is 522,000 square kilometres (202,000 sq mi)...
northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the DrakePassage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three...
boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the DrakePassage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge...
undersea fracture zone, mid-oceanic ridge and fault located in the DrakePassage, at the separation between the Scotia Plate from the Antarctic Plate...
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