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WHAT DOES DRAKE PASSAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Drake Passage

Drake Passage

The Drake Passage or Mar de Hoces—Sea of Hoces—is the body of water between the southern tip of South America at Cape Horn, Chile and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects the southwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean (Scotia Sea) with the southeastern part of the Pacific Ocean and extends into the Southern Ocean. The passage receives its English language name from the 16th century English privateer Sir Francis Drake. Drake's only remaining ship, after having passed through the Strait of Magellan, was blown far South in September 1578. This incident implied an open connection between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Half a century earlier, after a gale had pushed them South from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan, the crew of the Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces thought they saw a land's end and possibly inferred this passage in 1525. For this reason, some Spanish and Latin American historians and sources call it Mar de Hoces after Francisco de Hoces. The first recorded voyage through the passage was that of the Eendracht, captained by the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten in 1616, naming Cape Horn in the process.

Definition of Drake Passage in the English dictionary

The definition of Drake Passage in the dictionary is a strait between S South America and the South Shetland Islands, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Translation of «Drake Passage» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

德雷克海峡
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Pasaje de Drake
570 millions of speakers

English

Drake Passage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ड्रेक पैसेज
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ممر دريك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Пролив Дрейка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Drake Passage
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ড্রেক প্যাসেজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Passage de Drake
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Drake Passage
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Translator English - German

Drake Passage
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ドレーク海峡
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

드레이크 해협
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Drake Passage
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Drake Passage
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிரேக் பஸ்ஸேஜ்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ड्रेक पॅसेज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Drake Passage
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Passaggio di Drake
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Drake Passage
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Translator English - Ukrainian

протоку Дрейка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Drake Passage
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Translator English - Greek

Drake Passage
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Drake Passage
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Translator English - Swedish

Drake Passage
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Translator English - Norwegian

Drake Passage
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRAKE PASSAGE»

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Observations of Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dynamics in ...
Finally an analysis of the annual cycle of the circulation of Port Foster, Deception Island is presented.
Yueng Djern Lenn, 2006
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Encyclopedia of the Antarctic
However, anomalies are absent or irregular within about 100 km of the northern and southern margins of Drake Passage, where the oldest crust exists, so that the precise age of the first crust is uncertain. If early rates of opening were similar to ...
Beau Riffenburgh, 2007
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas III
RESULTS Distribution of Surface Chlorophyll a and C1* Uptake in the Study Areas The distributions of surface chlorophyll a and C14 uptake along the Argentine coast, in the Drake Passage, the Weddell Sea, and the waters west of the ...
George A. Llano, Waldo L. Schmitt, 1967
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas II
Distribution of physical and chemical data in the Drake Passage and Weddell Sea. The physical and chemical data taken at the surface in the Drake Passage and Weddell Sea are presented in Table 1. The distribution of temperature, salinity, ...
George A. Llano, 1965
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Frontal Variability in Drake Passage - A Modeling Study
The mean 500 m temperature tracked PF location is consisitent with mean surface PF location.
Bin Zhang, 2008
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Southern Ocean Ecology: The BIOMASS Perspective
In our review of BIOMASS we discuss the ecological and management implications of ornithological observations in southern Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait. We also review what we have learned about the influence of methods on the ...
Sayed Zakaria El-Sayed, 1994
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The Oceans and Marine Geochemistry
The Drake Passage profile shows a uniform eNd value of —9. In this context, Equatorial Atlantic neodymium-isotope ratios are slightly higher than those in the North Atlantic, especially in deep water, consistent with addition of some AABW.
H. Elderfield, Heinrich D. Holland, Karl K. Turekian, 2006
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The Unofficial Guide to Cruises
November–December 2010, January 16, 2011, 12 nights, Antarctic Explorer, round-trip from Ushuaia to Drake Passage, Antarctic Peninsula. December 29, February 8, 2011, 20 nights, round-trip from Ushuaia to Falkland Islands, Southern ...
Kay Showker, 2010
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Marine Ecological Processes: A derivative of the ...
Removing a piece of the land mass at the latitude of the Drake Passage induces an interhemispheric conveyor, similar to the modern Great Conveyor, which warms the entire Northern Hemisphere by several degrees. In this case, the conveyor ...
John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, Karl K. Turekian, 2009
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Biology of the Antarctic Seas III
RESULTS Distribution of Surface Chlorophyll a and C1* Uptake in the Study Areas The distributions of surface chlorophyll a and C14 uptake along the Argentine coast, in the Drake Passage, the Weddell Sea, and the waters west of the ...
George Albert Llano, Waldo Lasalle Schmitt, 1967

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRAKE PASSAGE»

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Antarctica expedition cruise on Russian research ship Akademik …
It also has an internal ballast stabilisation system, which helps on the two days we spend crossing the notorious Drake Passage from Ushuaia, ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
2
Planning an Antarctic adventure
From Ushuaia, in Tierra del Fuego on the southern tip of South America, it usually takes about 40 hours to cross the Drake Passage. Here ... «The West Australian, Jul 15»
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Antarctica expedition cruise on Russian research ship Akadekik Ioffe …
It also has an internal ballast stabilisation system, which helps on the two days we spend crossing the notorious Drake Passage from Ushuaia, ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
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Just Back From ... Antarctica
"Once across the Drake Passage, the world's most violent waterway, we visited several islands and we experienced continental landings in the ... «St. Cloud Times, Jul 15»
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Cruise the Southern Ocean, Antarctica: penguins and seals on show
Then it's time to turn north and cross the infamous Drake Passage, which takes about two days. This notorious stretch of more than 800km of ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Brilliant Glowworms in New Zealand Caves (PHOTOS) | The …
“We sailed across the Drake Passage in Antarctica to photographically map icebergs that will be a projection mapped onto significant buildings ... «The Weather Channel, Jul 15»
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A sojourn on the ice continent
... the group travelled by ship, sailing past Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of the continent of South America, then crossing the Drake Passage, ... «Daily News & Analysis, Jun 15»
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Crab named after deep-sea biologist
... through the Drake Passage that separates South America and Antarctica. Hydrothermal vent systems found in the Southern Ocean, therefore, ... «Thrasher Backer, Jun 15»
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Up close with a cold and inconvenient truth
After more than 22,000km of connecting flights and another two days across the infamous Drake Passage — the vast body of water between ... «TODAYonline, Jun 15»
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Montreat College getting back on course
Despite frozen fingers and feet, Shackleton led a contingent of men on a perilous 17-day, storm-tossed trip through the Drake Passage to South ... «Black Mountain News, Jun 15»

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