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KURO SIWO

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KURO SIWO  , or

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Kurz() SHIO (literally
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blue
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salt), a stream current in the Pacific Ocean, easily distinguishable by the warm temperature and blue
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colour of its
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waters, flowing
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north-eastwards along the
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east
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coast of
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Japan, and separated from it by a
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strip of
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cold
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water . The current persists as a stream to about 40 N., between the meridians of 150° E. and 16o° E., when it merges in the
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general easterly
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drift of the North Pacific . The Kuro Siwo is the analogue of the Gulf Stream in the
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Atlantic .

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