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South of New Zealand, the Southern Ocean's westerly winds drive the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which flows continuously around the globe. This is the world's strongest ocean current, reaching down 4 kilometres to the ocean floor and transporting about 100 times the volume of water of all the world's rivers. The current does not directly affect New Zealand's main islands. However, the Campbell Plateau to the south deflects the current south and channels it north past the Antipodes Islands before the flow resumes its eastward course. Further south, cold, downward-moving winds, known as katabatic winds, flow off Antarctica. These winds drive a westward current and form a clockwise gyre in the Ross Sea.
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What are the warm and cold ocean currents of the Atlantic Ocean?
Ocean currents describe itself, a warm ocean current is warm water that has a path anything that gets in way of the path will be taken by the current same for cold water also a new tranport for the water to travel to ocean to ocean
Which ocean current flows along the western coast of south America?
west wind drift or the humboldt current
In the movie Finding Nemo what ocean is the East Australia Current located at?
Pacific Ocean
What are the release dates for The Current Explore the Healing Powers of the Ocean - 2014?
The Current Explore the Healing Powers of the Ocean - 2014 was released on: USA: February 2014
What is the name of a cold ocean current?
el nino
