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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 ...
Relief map of the U.S. State of Colorado. This is a list of some important mountain passes in the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. State of Colorado . Mountain passes and highway summits traversed by improved roads
Drake is an unincorporated community in Larimer County, Colorado located in the Big Thompson Canyon between Estes Park, Colorado and Loveland, Colorado near Rocky Mountain National Park. A U.S. Post Office is also situated in the county ZIP Code 80515. [2] The 2010 population of Drake was 1,010. [3]
Glen Haven is located at (40.453740,-105.448837 Situated in Roosevelt National Forest east of Rocky Mountain National Park, Fox Creek and West Creek join the North Fork Big Thompson River near downtown Glen Haven, which then flows through Devil's Gulch, receiving Miller Fork, and joins the Big Thompson River at Drake.
This is a list of drainage basins in the U.S. State of Colorado. Colorado encompasses the headwaters of several important rivers. The state is divided into two major hydrographic regions by the Continental Divide of the Americas .
Since the discovery of Drake's landing site was by sea, it is critical to evaluate the landing site the way Drake and his crew saw it. One 1970s visit was aboard the USS Wiltsie (DD-716) . The most recent expedition was co-sponsored by the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA), Mother Lode Musical Theatre [ 18 ] and the Guild on ...
The Carnero Creek Pictographs take their name from the creek. The pictographs are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, [5] but their exact location along the creek is not publicly known, though one source indicates they are on the L-Cross Ranch, which lies along the creek near La Garita, Colorado.