Get exclusive access to content from our 1768 First Edition with your subscription. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.The Drake Passage played an important part in the trade of the 19th and early 20th centuries before the opening of the The passage has an average depth of about 11,000 feet (3,400 metres) with deeper regions of up to 15,600 feet (4,800 metres) near the northern and southern boundaries. History. Between 2007 and 2011 flow through Drake Passage was continuously monitored with a line of moored instrumentation with unprecedented horizontal and temporal resolution.
New data confirm the existence of a sharp boundary over the Scotia Ridge and show that the warm deep layer in the northwestern Weddell Sea is cooled below 0°C when it reaches depths shallower than about 1000 m. …
Drake Passage, deep waterway, 600 miles (1,000 km) wide, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans between Cape Horn (the southernmost point of South America) and the South Shetland Islands, situated about 100 miles (160 km) north of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Drake Passage, the body of water between Cape Horn in South America and the South Shetland Islands in Antarctica, is where the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern seas converge, and because the currents here meet no resistance from any nearby landmass, they’re some of the choppiest waters in the world.
Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree.... The Drake Passage on a Map, and ‘Rounding the Horn’ The Drake Passage is situated at the point where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans meet. The boundary between the currents from the Weddell Sea and the Drake Passage has been investigated in the area between the South Shetland and South Orkney islands. The passage received its name from the 16th-century Half a century earlier, after a gale had pushed them south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan, the crew of the The first recorded voyage through the passage was that of The first human-powered transit (by rowing) across the passage was accomplished on December 25, 2019, by captain The 800-kilometre (500 mi) wide passage between Cape Horn and The other two passages around the extreme southern part of South America (though not going around Cape Horn as such), the Seabird (light-mantled sooty albatross) flying over the Drake Passage Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox.
The colossal currents of the Drake Passage. The goal of cDrake is to quantify the transport and understand the dynamic balances of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) in Drake Passage for four years (2007-2011). The origin of the sediments on the floor of the passage therefore reflect a The winds over the Drake Passage are predominantly from the west and are most intense to the north around Cape Horn.
Use a local dynamics array to describe the mesoscale eddy field. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean.
The sediments on the seafloor vary from sandy to clayey silts immediately south of Tierra del Fuego, with an increasing predominance of ice-rafted materials (dropped by icebergs) near Antarctica. This means that it is a massive convergence of waves, wind, and currents.