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  • 09 September, 2025

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Drake Passage

A powerful earthquake measuring magnitude 7.5 recently struck the Drake Passage, triggering a brief tsunami alert. The quake’s epicenter was located in this turbulent waterway between the southern tip of South America and Antarctica.

About Drake Passage

  • The Drake Passage lies between South America’s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

  • Named after Sir Francis Drake, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.

  • It is a deep, wide waterway connecting the southwestern Atlantic Ocean and the southeastern Pacific Ocean.

  • Known as one of the roughest waterways worldwide due to the clash of cold southern and warm northern seawater layers creating powerful eddies, combined with strong winds and storms.

  • It spans roughly 800 km, making it the narrowest stretch in the Southern Ocean.

  • Acts as a climatic boundary between the cool, humid subpolar climate of Tierra del Fuego and the frigid polar climate of Antarctica.

  • Winds here blow predominantly from the west, especially strong near Cape Horn.

  • Historically significant for 19th- and early 20th-century trade before the Panama Canal opened.

Source: THE HINDU


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