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The Cape Horn Current is a cold water current that flows west-to-east around Cape Horn caused by the intensification of the West Wind Drift as it rounds the cape.

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Cape Horn Current

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The Cape Horn Current is a cold water current that flows west-to-east around Cape Horn caused by the intensification of the West Wind Drift as it rounds...

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Cape Horn

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Cape Horn (Spanish: Cabo de Hornos, pronounced [ˈkaβo ðe ˈoɾnos]) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile,...

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Ocean current

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ocean current which lies north of the North Pacific Current; California Current – Pacific Ocean current Cape Horn Current – Cold water current that flows...

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Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve

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The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve (Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve) is located in the extreme south of Chile and comprises marine areas, islands, fjords...

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Great capes

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and South America's Cape Horn. The traditional clipper route followed the winds of the roaring forties south of the great capes. Due to the significant...

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Mike Horn

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Movement Science at Stellenbosch University in Western Cape, South Africa. Horn is currently undertaking his latest expedition Pole2Pole, a two-year...

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Drake Passage

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The Drake Passage is the body of water between South America's Cape Horn, Chile, Argentina, and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It connects...

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Antarctic Circumpolar Current

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around three continental capesCape Agulhas (Africa), South East Cape (Australia), and Cape Horn (South America). The current creates the Ross and Weddell...

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List of current ships of the United States Navy

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MV Cape Decision MV Cape Diamond MV Cape Domingo MV Cape Douglas MV Cape Ducato MV Cape Edmont MV Cape Henry MV Cape Horn MV Cape Hudson SS Cape Intrepid...

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Falkland Current

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of the Río de la Plata. This current results from the movement of water from the West Wind Drift as it rounds Cape Horn. It takes its name from the Falkland...

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Cape of Good Hope

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Agulhas current meets the cold-water Benguela current and turns back on itself. That oceanic meeting point fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point...

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Outline of oceanography

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current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre Cape Horn Current – A cold water current that flows west-to-east around Cape Horn Caribbean Current –...

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Christian Horner

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finish at the Monaco Grand Prix, where Horner jumped into a swimming pool wearing nothing but a Superman cape to celebrate. 2007 brought the RB3, the...

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African buffalo

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subspecies that are recognized as being valid. Syncerus caffer caffer, the Cape buffalo, is the nominotypical subspecies, and the largest one, found in Southern...

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Around the world sailing record

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Ocean around the Antarctica continent, passing south of Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope and Cape Leeuwin. Since 1918 the Panama Canal is an option but the...

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Irving Johnson

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his footage on the barque Peking in 1929 would become the film Around Cape Horn.[citation needed] While serving as mate on board the Wanderbird, Johnson...

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Quan Horn

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Quan Horn is a South African rugby union player for the Golden Lions in the Currie Cup. His regular position is fullback. Horn was named in the Golden...

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Borders of the oceans

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The Pacific Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean south of South America at Cape Horn. The Atlantic Ocean, the second largest, extends from the Southern Ocean...

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Ras Hafun

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Reconnaissance of the Horn: The British-Somali Expedition. pp. 117–133. Paul J. J. Sinclair, "Archaeology in Eastern Africa: An Overview of Current Chronological...

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Big five game

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ISBN 978-1-4000-1234-3. "Current Zoology" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 January 2022. Stumpf, Bruce G. "Africa on the Matrix: The Cape Buffalo". Archived...

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Cape Guardafui

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Gardafuul administrative province, it forms the geographical apex of the Horn of Africa. Its shore at 51°27'52"E is the second easternmost point on mainland...

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Cape Barren goose

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or placed in its own tribe, Cereopsini. Two subspecies of Cape Barren goose are currently recognised: Cereopsis novaehollandiae novaehollandiae (Latham...

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List of Canadian writers

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Horn of Africa Eritrean Ethiopian Somali North Africa Berber Algerian Libyan Moroccan Tunisian Coptic Egyptian East Africa South Sudanese Sudanese Southern...

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Guardafui Channel

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north with the Indian Ocean to the south. Its namesake is Cape Guardafui, the very tip of the Horn of Africa. Notable places of interest include the Alula...

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Clipper route

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sailors were lost in the heavy conditions along the route, particularly at Cape Horn, which the clippers had to round on their return to Europe. The clipper...

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Natural delimitation between the Pacific and South Atlantic oceans by the Scotia Arc

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Ocean and the Southwest Atlantic Ocean would not be the meridian of the Cape Horn, but rather the Scotia Arc, an underwater orographic chain which links...

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Jessica Watson

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and to pass near New Zealand, Fiji, Kiribati, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin and South East Cape. According to the circumnavigation criteria...

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