A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 7.5 recently struck the Drake Passage, triggering a brief tsunami alert. The quake’s epicenter was located in this turbulent waterway between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica.
The Drake Passage lies between South America’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
Named after Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.
It is a deep, wide waterway connecting the southwestern Atlantic Ocean and the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
Known as one of the roughest waterways worldwide due to the clash of cold southern and warm northern seawater layers creating powerful eddies, combined with strong winds and storms.
It spans roughly 800 km, making it the narrowest stretch in the Southern Ocean.
Acts as a climatic boundary between the cool, humid subpolar climate of Tierra del Fuego and the frigid polar climate of Antarctica.
Winds here blow predominantly from the west, especially strong near Cape Horn.
Historically significant for 19th- and early 20th-century trade before the Panama Canal opened.
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