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Drake Passage

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The Drake Passage is the strait between the tip of South America, or Cape Horn, and the South Shetland Islands. It is 1,800 km (500 mi) wide, forming a passage between the Pacific Ocean on the west and the Scotia Sea of the South Atlantic Ocean on the east. Passing through the Straits of Magellan in 1578, Sir Francis Drake was blown far to the south on the Pacific side. He sighted Cape Horn and the open water of the passage, which he thought to be a route to the Indies.

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