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Glossary

East Wind Drift

Surface current in the Southern Ocean.

Surface current in the Southern Ocean that moves through the Antarctic counter-clockwise south of the 65th parallel. Powered by the locally dominant easterlies. Irregularities in the coastline (= Antarctic Peninsula) partially impede it, producing eddies on the southern edge of the West Wind Drift.

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