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Title: Science of the sea. An elementary handbook of practical oceanography for travellers, sailors, and yachtsmen

Year: 1912 (1910s)

Authors: Challenger Society Fowler, G. Herbert (George Herbert), 1861-1940

Subjects: Oceanography Ocean

Publisher: London, John Murray

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RENTS. ies the approximate boundaries, of the main surface currents. [Between pp. 60, 61.

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CHART V.—OCEAN CURRENTS.Based on Admiralty Chart 3,52s. The arrows indicate the direction, the dotted lines the approximate boundaries, of the main surface currents. SURFACE CURRENTS 61 Cape of Good Hope, they send a branch north, whichis probably attributable partly to the pull of thetrade winds, partly to a resistent current in theopposite direction coming from the Indian Ocean.This branch contributes to the cold Benguela Currentalong the West African coast, of which a large partseems due to an upwelling of cold water from below,owing to water being drawn off the surface by thetrade winds. This brings us back to our starting-pointin the South Equatorial Current. Between the Northand South Equatorial Currents is an ill-defined back-water, the Counter-Equatorial Current, with a sloweasterly trend. We may now turn to the PACIFIC OCEAN. In thisthe simple currents of the diagram (Fig. 5) are confused,and their strength frittered away, by the numerousislands of the middle and western re

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