The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects...
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Oregon Drake Peak, Oregon Drake Passage, between Cape Horn and Antarctica Drake Head, Oates Land, a headland Drake Icefall, Ellsworth Land Drake County...
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Scotia Plate (section Opening of Drake Passage)
Thought to have formed during the early Eocene with the opening of the Drake Passage that separates Antarctica and South America, it is a minor plate whose...
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the Discovery Channel. It follows explorers as they row across the Drake Passage and become the first in history to do so. The journey took 12 days and...
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Oligocene (section Drake Passage)
Drake Passage may also have been in place by the end of the early Oligocene. This may have been interrupted by a temporary constriction of the Drake Passage...
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(which is Águila Islet), Cape Horn marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and marks where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet. Cape Horn was...
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Fiann Paul led the first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the Drake Passage (The Impossible Row) and, in doing so, he completed the row on his fifth...
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is now compulsory. The strait is shorter and more sheltered than the Drake Passage, the often stormy open sea route around Cape Horn, which is beset by...
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2019, he led the first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the Drake Passage, and the first human-powered expedition on the Southern Ocean. As of...
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involving the separation of Antarctica from South America (forming the Drake Passage) and Australia, occurred during the Paleogene (from around 66 to 23...
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Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition...
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through Drake Passage and therefore circumpolar. The bulk of the transport is carried in the middle two fronts. The total transport of the ACC at Drake Passage...
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interrupt the northern boundary of the Southern Ocean where intersected by Drake Passage which includes all of the waters from South America to the Antarctic...
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coast of the Americas and the Phoenix Plate to a small remnant near the Drake Passage, and destroyed the Izanagi Plate by subduction under Asia. The Pacific...
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two otherwise. Argentina's oceans include the Southern Ocean if the Drake Passage is considered part of it and the Pacific Ocean if its waters are considered...
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The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies...
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Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, part of the Drake Passage, Gulf of Mexico, Labrador Sea, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian...
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of Magellan to the north, and the open-ocean Drake Passage to the south are the three navigable passages around South America between the Pacific and...
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Ramírez Islands, about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Cape Horn in the Drake Passage. The distance to the closest Antarctic lands (Greenwich Island, South...
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Incident Location Comments 1819 Shipwreck 644 San Telmo (Spanish ship) Drake Passage, Southern Ocean 1979 Aircraft 257 Air New Zealand Flight 901 Mount Erebus...
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Panama Canal (section Northwest Passage)
hazardous route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan. It is one of the largest and most difficult engineering...
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boundary with the South Atlantic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Drake Passage and on the north, east, and south by the Scotia Arc, an undersea ridge...
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northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three...
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Shackleton Fracture Zone (redirect from 2010 Drake Passage earthquake)
undersea fracture zone, mid-oceanic ridge and fault located in the Drake Passage, at the separation between the Scotia Plate from the Antarctic Plate...
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India. The film crew had to navigate Drake Passage, considered one of the world's most dangerous water passages, and encountered a territorial rhinoceros...
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connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the Drake Passage to the south. The Colorado and Barrancas rivers, which run from the...
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Strait of Magellan to (56° S). He discovers the Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces. 1578 – Francis Drake claims to have discovered an ocean south of South...
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claiming the land for England and naming it New Albion. Unable to find a passage, Drake turned south in the lone Golden Hind and in July 1579 sailed west across...
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300 kilometres (1,400 mi). Through the opening of the Drake Passage and the Tasmanian Passage, the Antarctic circumpolar current was able to form at...
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of the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica, but climate model simulations suggest that the early opening of the Drake Passage played only...
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