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.

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Visiting Antarctica is on almost every photographer’s bucket list. Each year, the “white continent” invites throngs of researchers, scientists, and geologists who comb its ice sheet and subglacial ...

On August 22, 2025, a powerful earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale struck the Drake Passage, the turbulent waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Recorded at 07:46 AM IST at a ...

Brandee Lake, a passenger on Royal Caribbean's Ultimate World Cruise, talks to PEOPLE about traveling to Antarctica via the TikTok-infamous route Courtesy Brandee Lake Brandee Lake is taking the same ...

gCaptain brought my attention to cruise ship rather unfortunate encounter with the Drake Passage. For those who don’t know, the Drake Passage is the hell hole between the tip of South America and the ...

LOS ANGELES — As freezing water thrashed their rowboat in some of the most treacherous waters in the world, six men fought for 13 days to make history, becoming the first people to traverse the ...

A cruise ship faced massive 30-40-foot waves in the turbulent Drake Passage. Passenger Lesley Anne Murphy captured footage of the wild ride, showing passengers falling and sliding. Quark Expeditions ...

A blogger said that waves towered 30 to 40 feet high. In the video shared online, you see the sliding across the floor, and the wall-mounted television swinging from side to side. The cruise company ...

Early Tuesday morning, a Chilean military plane went missing mid-flight. It was en route from the southern city of Punta Arenas to a military base in Antarctica — but it doesn’t seem to have made it.

ABSTRACT: Southern blue whiting Micromesistius australis occurs around the southern coasts of South America and has been known to undertake summer feeding migrations to the Antarctic Peninsula and ...