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The "Duke" transported supplies and personnel between Palmer Station, Antarctica and the port of Punta Arenas, Chile, on the Strait of Magellan, for 13 years, providing seagoing and shore-based research support in waters and islands in the Drake Passage and around the Antarctic Peninsula.
The thermal isolation of Antarctica and formation of the Antarctic ice sheet has largely been attributed to the opening of the Drake Passage.