“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and rightly so,” Alfred Lansing wrote of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1916 voyage across it in a small lifeboat. It is, of course, the Drake ...

The Drake Passage is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula. Named after the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake, it is notorious for ...

Exactly how the turbulent mixing of ocean water relates to global overturning ... higher than the global average," said co-author Henri Drake, UC Irvine assistant professor of Earth system science.

Tropical Storm Henri has formed in the Atlantic Ocean. Henri will pose no danger to land. It is the eighth named storm of 2015. September 10 is the statistical peak of hurricane season.

Why it's incredible: The passage is one of the world's most dangerous ocean crossings. The Drake Passage is an ocean channel between the southern tip of South America and the West Antarctic Peninsula.