Drake Passage

noun

1. a strait between southern South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Drake Passage

noun

1. a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Word History and Origins

Origin of Drake Passage¹

First recorded in 1830–40 as Drake's Passage; named after Sir Francis Drake

Example Sentences

The team, which also consists of wildlife monitor Maggie Coll, base leader Lou Hoskin, museum manager Aoife McKenna and shop manager Dale Ellis, will soon leave the UK and travel to Argentina, where they will spend a few days before taking a boat through the rough waters of the Drake passage.

From BBC

I’m not a seafarer; this is alarming, but apparently not unusual on the Drake Passage - the stretch of the notoriously rough Southern Ocean we are on.

From BBC

Working in this way also means researchers operate on the tourist ship’s schedule, with just four full days travelling around the Peninsula before heading back across the infamous Drake Passage.

From BBC

On maps, the spindly arms of Cape Horn and the Antarctic Peninsula reach out to grasp one another, separated only by the Drake Passage, which is named after Sir Francis Drake, a 16th-Century English explorer who had also been involved in the slave trade.

From National Geographic

Most people have never been to the Drake Passage.

From National Geographic