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Drake Passage

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Drake Passage
A strait between Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands. It connects the southern Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Drake Passage
n
(Placename) a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans


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It was the two-day cruise each way across the Drake Passage that was most memorable.
Four days out of Ushuaia - and having survived Drake Passage - we found ourselves virtually wading in penguins on a rock outcropping that juts into Paradise Harbor about halfway down the 700-mile Antarctic Peninsula.
As the vessel maneuvers around the Drake Passage at the southernmost end of Chile and Argentina, the sailors will not have to worry about their privately owned vehicles.
 
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