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Current named for port city in Angola

Benguela Current

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Cold current that joins Agulhas Current off South Africa

Benguela Current

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Plastisphere

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Floating trash pile in ocean; near Hawaii

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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“Ghost gear”

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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2x size of Texas

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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Subtropical convergence zone

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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“Charleston Bump”

Gulf Stream

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Blake Plateau

Gulf Stream

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Western boundary of Sargasso Sea

Gulf Stream

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Originally mapped by Benjamin Franklin

Gulf Stream

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Divides North American gyre

Gulf Stream

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Warm current running from eastern US to North Atlantic

Gulf Stream

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Cold current off the coast of Peru

Humboldt Current

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Cools Galápagos Islands

Humboldt Current

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Named for German biogeographist

Humboldt Current

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Saharan winds that blow up through Mediterranean Sea

Sirocco