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Equatorial current   /ˌikwətˈɔriəl kˈərənt/   Listen
Equatorial current

noun
1.
Any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator.



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... Good Hope. In trying to escape the long calms which had beset Bartolome Dias in the Gulf of Guinea, Pedro Cabral, commander of the fleet, struck out quite far from the Morocco coast and got into the Equatorial Current. The existence of this powerful westward current had never been suspected by either Spanish or Portuguese mariners. Wind and current combining, Cabral and his captains found themselves, in about a month's time, on ...
— Christopher Columbus • Mildred Stapley
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