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Drake Passage
The
Drake Passage
or
Mar de Hoces
—Sea of
Hoces
—is the body of water between
South America
's
Cape Horn
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.
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