File:EB1911 Plankton - Atlantic surface currents.jpg

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English: Diagram of the Atlantic Ocean, showing the main surface currents (some are seasonal only): the corresponding Indian and Pacific currents are cited in parentheses; they are rarely so strongly marked as in the Atlantic (see legend below).

Date

published 1911

Source

“Plankton,” Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), v. 21, 1911, p. 720, fig. 1.

Author

unknown cartographer

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This image comes from the 13^th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1929. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.

English: Legend:

1.	Counterequatorial (also 1′ Pacific and Indian).
2.	North Equatorial (also Pacific).
2′	The Equatorial (also 2″ Pacific and Indian).
3.	Gulf Stream proper (Japan Stream).
3′.	Brazil Current (Australian Current).
3″.	Mozambique Current (recurved off Cape Agulhas).
4.	Labrador Current (Kamchatka Current).
4′.	Falkland Current.
5.	North Atlantic Drift, generally called Gulf Stream (North Pacific Drift).
5′.	South Atlantic Drift, ill defined (South Pacific Drift).
6.	North African Current (Mexico Current).
6′.	Benguela Current.
6″.	Peru Current.
7.	Antarctic Circumpolar Drift. 7′, its northerly branches on the west sides of Africa and South America.

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