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Drake Passage
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Drake Passage

Strait, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between Tierra del Fuego and the South Shetland Islands. Located about 100 mi (160 km) north of the Antarctic Peninsula, it is 600 mi (1,000 km) wide. In this area the climate changes from cool, humid, and subpolar to the frozen conditions of Antarctica. An important trade route in the 19th and early 20th centuries, its stormy seas and icy conditions made the rounding of Cape Horn a difficult journey.
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He and his colleagues will also sail through one of the world's roughest seas, Drake's passage.
ICE WORK, ROB; 'Green warrior' heads to the wilds of frozen Antarctica by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
This was followed by a five-day voyage on a Russian icebreaker across the roughest seas on Earth, through Drake's Passage and around treacherous Cape Horn to the Antarctic peninsula.
The marathon man by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Having mapped the remote area they will now focus their activities on Elephant Island, some 300 miles to the north, before their returning across the treacherous Drake's Passage towards Cape Horn.
Bay girl's trip to the ends of the Earth by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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