The passage takes the two sailors through the Drake Passage, which is named after the English explorer Sir Francis Drake, who confirmed the existence of an open sea route south of South America.

Most sailing ships thus prefer the Drake Passage ... named after the 16th-century English explorer and privateer Sir Francis Drake during his raiding expedition. After passing through the Strait ...

I, Francis Drake, explorer extraordinaire, am travelling around the world with the full backing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. We left England in December 1577, five ships strong, across the ...