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DescriptionEB1911 Plankton - Atlantic surface currents.jpg |
English: Diagram of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the main surface currents (some are seasonal only): the corresponding Indian and Pacific currents are cited in parentheses; they are rarely so strongly marked as in the Atlantic (see legend below). |
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Date | published 1911 | ||||
Source | “Plankton,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 21, 1911, p. 720, fig. 1. | ||||
Author | unknown cartographer | ||||
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English: Legend:
1. | Counterequatorial (also 1′ Pacific and Indian). |
2. | North Equatorial (also Pacific). |
2′ | The Equatorial (also 2″ Pacific and Indian). |
3. | Gulf Stream proper (Japan Stream). |
3′. | Brazil Current (Australian Current). |
3″. | Mozambique Current (recurved off Cape Agulhas). |
4. | Labrador Current (Kamchatka Current). |
4′. | Falkland Current. |
5. | North Atlantic Drift, generally called Gulf Stream (North Pacific Drift). |
5′. | South Atlantic Drift, ill defined (South Pacific Drift). |
6. | North African Current (Mexico Current). |
6′. | Benguela Current. |
6″. | Peru Current. |
7. | Antarctic Circumpolar Drift. 7′, its northerly branches on the west sides of Africa and South America. |
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