The ocean is one of the most terrifying places on Earth if you really stop and think about all the worrying weather and rogue waves. However, there is one stretch of water that is scarier than the ...

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The Drake Passage, located between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula, is known for being one of the most dangerous stretches of ocean on Earth. With waves reaching up ...

Why it's incredible: The passage is one of the world's most dangerous ocean crossings. The Drake Passage is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula.

Fans of North Sea TikTok have turned their attention south, to the Drake Passage. In case that sentence is confusing you, “North Sea TikTok” is just one of the many topics dominating hundreds of ...

The Drake Passage is one of the most treacherous bodies of water in the world. That didn’t stop six voyagers from crossing it by rowboat in December 2019. For 600 miles, explorer Fiann Paul led a team ...

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At the southernmost point of South America, ships crossing the Atlantic and Pacific oceans confronted a terrible reality for millennia: the dreaded Drake Passage. One of the most violent stretches of ...

Climate models suggest that when the Drake Passage opened tens of millions of years ago—no-one is quite sure exactly when— it contributed massively to the cooling of Antarctica. You can feel the ...