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Shipwreck: 644 San Telmo (Spanish ship) [1] 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
A ship of the line that sank in a storm in Drake Passage 62°20′S 60°30′W / 62.333°S 60.500°W / -62.333; -60.500 ( San Telmo Further reading
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 ...
Crossing the Drake Passage is much, much more benign than it used to be thanks to the accuracy of modern forecasting models and stabilizers on more modern cruise ships. This doesn’t mean it’ll ...
San Telmo (Spanish ship) - Damaged by severe weather in the Drake Passage, south of Cape Horn, it sank in September. The 644 officers, soldiers and seamen lost on board San Telmo were the first known people to die in Antarctica. 644 1878 United Kingdom
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?]
They could travel over land, which was expensive and dangerous, or they could sail the roughly 14,000-mile (23,000 km) route around South America. This was more attractive to some but no less dangerous, due in part to the rough waters of the Drake Passage. In addition to the inherent dangers of either route, the journey often took as long as ...
Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird, the best surviving open boat, through the Drake Passage, even though there were no sun appearances for precise navigation. Through the dead-reckoning skills of Shackleton and his navigator, Frank Worsley , the bedraggled party reached South Georgia Island 650 nautical miles away, their ...