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Drake PassageStrait, 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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It was the two-day cruise each way across the Drake Passage that was most memorable. Four days out of Ushuaia - and having survived Drake Passage - we found ourselves virtually wading in penguins on a rock outcropping that juts into Paradise Harbor about halfway down the 700-mile Antarctic Peninsula. As the vessel maneuvers around the Drake Passage at the southernmost end of Chile and Argentina, the sailors will not have to worry about their privately owned vehicles. |
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