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Agulhas Current  

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  • The Agulhas Current is the major western boundary current of the Southern Hemisphere. It completes the anti-cyclonic gyre of the South Indian Ocean, and because the African continent terminates at a relatively modest latitude, it becomes a mechanism for the climatologically important inter-ocean exchange between the Indian and Atlantic oceans. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Agulhas Current]

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