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History of the Drake Passage This body of water is named after the famous English explorer,  Sir Francis Drake . Though Drake never sailed through his namesake waters himself, one of his ships did pass near its location, discovering a connection between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This meant that they inadvertently discovered the Drake Passage in 1578, and proved the existence of an open water route south of South America. Many decades after its discovery, a ship named the Eindracht made the first recorded successful voyage through the Drake Passage .  Willem Schouten , a Dutch navigator, served as captain of this voyage in 1616.  He also named Cape Horn on this journey.  Despite the difficulties involved in navigating it, the Drake Passage proved to be an important part of future international trade routes in the 19th and early 20th centuries, prior to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Throughout history, the Drake Passage is known for its often turbulent seas.  These con

Head Note:  Day 12, November 12, 2022.  We are sailing north to return to our beginning port.  AND finally able to get a strong enough satellite signal to use our blog software.  So here we go .......                                         🛬 Ushuaia 🛫 Ushuaia is the most southerly city on our planet.   Here we embarked on the Viking Polaris and will debark when the cruise ends. Ushuaia  is the  capital  of  Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province ,  Argentina . With a population of nearly 75,000 and a location below the  54th parallel south  latitude, Ushuaia claims the title of  world's southernmost city . A much smaller municipality of less than 3,000 people,  Puerto Williams  in  Chile , is nearer to the  55th parallel south , at a latitude of 54°56' S compared to Ushuaia at 54°48' S. Ushuaia is located in a wide  bay  on the southern coast of  Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego , bounded on the north by the  Martial mountain  range and on the so