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In 1525, Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. [2] Because of this, the Drake Passage is referred to as the "Mar de Hoces (Sea of Hoces)" in Spanish maps and sources, while almost always in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries it is mostly known as “Pasaje de Drake” (in Argentina, mainly), or ...
The Shackleton fracture zone (SFZ) is an undersea fracture zone, mid-oceanic ridge [1] and fault located in the Drake Passage, at the separation between the Scotia plate from the Antarctic plate. [2] It extends between 59° and 60°40' south latitude and between 56°30' and 61° west longitude and runs in a northwest to southeast direction from ...
[1] [2] It marks the north edge of the Drake Passage, the strait between South America and Antarctica. [3] [4] It is located in Cabo de Hornos National Park. The cape lies within Chilean territorial waters, and the Chilean Navy maintains a station on Hoorn Island, consisting of a residence, utility building, chapel, and lighthouse. [5]
MS National Geographic Endeavour was a small expedition ship operated by Lindblad ... the ship was struck by a 30-metre-high rogue wave while crossing the Drake Passage.
Francis Drake (English); expedition against the Spanish Main 1577–1580; westward from England; in Golden Hind; discovered the Drake Passage but entered the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan; first English circumnavigation and the second carried out in a single expedition. Drake was the first to complete a circumnavigation as captain while ...
The Northwest Passage ... Sir Francis Drake sought the western ... The World 's transit of the Northwest Passage was documented by National Geographic photographer ...
Image credits: National Geographic #5. The 'Spanish Flu' actually likely got its start in Kansas, USA. ... That boat made it through the Drake Passage, one of the deadliest places in the ocean ...
A 2022 study by Nature noted that when the high is over the Drake Passage, it alongside an elongated cyclone located in the South Pacific transport warm and moist air to the southwestern Antarctic Peninsula, which is linked to record-high temperatures, extreme summertime melt, and dramatic break-ups in the Larsen Ice Shelf and eastern Antarctic ...