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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 total transport of the ACC at Drake Passage is estimated to be around 135 Sv, or about 135 times the transport of all the world's rivers combined. There is a relatively small addition of flow in the Indian Ocean, with the transport south of Tasmania reaching around 147 Sv, at which point the current is probably the largest on the planet.
Drake Passage, Southern Ocean: 1979 Aircraft: 257 Air New Zealand Flight 901 [2] Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica 2019 Aircraft: 38 2019 Chilean Air Force C-130 crash: Drake Passage, Antarctica Aircraft lost en route from Chile to Teniente R. Marsh Airport, King George Island: 2010 Shipwreck: 22 South Korean trawler Insung [3]
The open waters of the Drake Passage, south of Cape Horn, provide by far the widest route, at about 800 kilometres (500 miles) wide; this passage offers ample sea room for maneuvering as winds change, and is the route used by most ships and sailboats, despite the possibility of extreme wave conditions. [21] [unreliable source?]
It is several hundred miles shorter than the Drake Passage, but sailing ships, particularly clipper ships, prefer the latter. Its major port is Punta Arenas, a transshipment point for Chilean mutton situated on the Brunswick Peninsula. [54] Exemplifying the difficulty of the passage, it took Magellan 38 days to complete the crossing. [16]
Andrew Towne is an American businessman, endurance athlete, adventurer, and motivational speaker. He is known for being part of the six-person rowing crew that completed the first-ever human-powered crossing of the Drake Passage between Cape Horn in South America and Antarctica in December 2019.
The current period is the Quaternary, which started 2.58 million years ago. It is divided into the Pleistocene , which ended 11,700 years ago, and the current Holocene . The Quaternary is characterized by alternating glacial periods , during which extensive ice sheets cover large portions of the Earth, and interglacial periods , which are ...
The study concludes that the Drake Passage would be free to allow significant deep water flow by around 31 Ma. This would have facilitated an earlier onset of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. There is some evidence that it occurred much earlier, during the early Eocene. [107]