{"id":60526,"date":"2025-08-23T13:08:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=60526"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:05:28","slug":"drake-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/drake-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Drake Passage Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7.5 hit Drake Passage and a tsunami alert was issued briefly.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Drake Passage<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is located between <\/span><b>South America&#8217;s Cape Horn<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><b>South Shetland Islands of Antarctica<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The passage is <\/span><b>named after Sir Francis Drake,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a deep and wide waterway that connects the<\/span><b> southwestern Atlantic and southeastern Pacific Oceans.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is considered one of <\/span><b>the roughest waterways<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world because here, layers of cold seawater from the south and <\/span><b>warm seawater from the north collide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to form powerful eddies, which when combined with strong winds and storms can be treacherous for those attempting to navigate it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also the <\/span><b>narrowest stretch<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Southern Ocean and spans<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> approximately 800 km between the southern tip of South America and the northern tip of the West Antarctic Peninsula<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drake Passage defines the <\/span><b>zone of climatic transition<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> separating the cool, humid, subpolar conditions of Tierra del Fuego and the frigid, polar regions of Antarctica.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winds over the Drake Passage are predominantly from the west and are most intense to the north around Cape Horn.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Drake Passage played an important part in the trade of the 19th and early 20th centuries before the opening of the Panama Canal.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/magnitude-8-earthquake-hits-drake-passage-usgs-101755830209791.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake Passage is located between South America&#8217;s Cape Horn and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. 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