There are a few infamous waterways that strike fear (or at least anxiety) into the hearts of sailors everywhere. Some of them are known for pirates (even in the modern day), while others are known for ...

Imagine what it must feel like to cross the most dangerous Ocean crossing in the world? The Drake Passage is a 600-mile ...

It’s the body of water that instils fear and inspires sailors in equal measure. Six hundred miles of open sea, and some of the roughest conditions on the planet – with an equally inhospitable land of ...

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.

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 ...

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