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  • Antarctica: Paradise Bay
    Antarctica
    / The surrounding seas

    …turbulent ā€œRoaring Fortiesā€ and ā€œFurious Fiftiesā€ lie in a circumpolar storm track and a westerly oceanic current zone commonly called the West Wind Drift, or Circumpolar Current. Warm, subtropical surface currents in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans move southward in the western parts of these waters and then…

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    …turbulent ā€œRoaring Fortiesā€ and ā€œFurious Fiftiesā€ lie in a circumpolar storm track and a westerly oceanic current zone commonly called the West Wind Drift, or Circumpolar Current. Warm, subtropical surface currents in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans move southward in the western parts of these waters and then…

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