Footage recently went viral of a cruise ship being tossed around by massive waves leaving passengers stumbling and sliding ...

The Drake Passage is renowned not just for its size but for the extraordinary weather patterns it creates. The southern winds—unimpeded by land—can whip through the passage at incredible ...

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 ...

They were cruising for a bruising. Passengers freaked out as 40-foot waves slammed into a cruise liner navigating a treacherous stretch of ocean off Antarctica, as seen in freaky footage on Instagram.

Thankfully, the Ocean Explorer is properly prepped to withstand the powerful waves, with the company writing that its Drake Passage cruise provides “opportunities to experience fierce weather and ...

Were it not for the Drake Passage and its wild weather, the frozen continent would likely hold much less ice than it currently does.