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单词 equatorial current
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Its special home is a broad space of ocean surface between the Gulf Stream and the equatorial current, known as the Sargasso Sea. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z
We are making good speed through the water, but we have at length encountered our dreaded enemy, the great equatorial current, which sets, with such regularity, along this coast. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z
Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, for instance, although they correspond in latitude to Labrador, are made habitable and an excellent sheep-grazing country by the southerly equatorial current along the continental coast. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"
If it were not for the equatorial current, this progressive decrease of temperature would doubtless be perfectly uniform. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes
This might be produced by a change in the conditions of the equatorial current, so that evaporation would be more rapid in the northern Pacific than it now is. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water.
On this course we encounter the equatorial current, which runs northward at a rate of two miles in an hour, and at some points reaches a much higher rate of speed. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z
A remarkable uniformity of climate would prevail amid the archipelagoes of the temperate and polar oceans, where the tepid waters of equatorial currents would freely circulate. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology
This is attempted to be accounted for by the drifting of Malay castaways along the equatorial current upon the Ryūkyū islands, whence they spread to the southern islands of Japan. Japan
But although there was not a breath of wind, the powerful equatorial current was quietly driving the ships, much faster than the Admiral could have suspected, to the northwest and toward land. The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest
And no doubt he has also noticed that this wind gives rise to the equatorial current which, broad and strong, sets westwards across the Pacific Ocean. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People
What he seems to have in mind is the great equatorial current between Africa and the West Indies. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
These cause a westward flow, known as the equatorial current. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition.
Owing to the difference between the rotatory velocity at the poles and at the equator, the polar current is deflected eastward, and the equatorial current westward. COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
The equatorial currents of the South Seas may be regarded as among the most mysterious of the mysteries of the deep. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
Northward of the Equator the current is divided into north and south equatorial currents by the equatorial counter-current, a stream flowing from west to east throughout the Pacific Ocean. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient
Later, near the Tropic of Capricorn, he feared finding calms which would delay him again, without speaking of the equatorial current, which would irresistibly throw him back to the west. Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen
Olancho, as many people know, is situated on the northeastern coast of South America, and its shores are washed by the main equatorial current. Soldiers of Fortune
Tropic of Capricorn, and the equatorial current driving him on westwards, would entail a delay that might be serious. Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Conversely, the southerly route by the Azores is best for outward-bound ships; as it escapes most of the Gulf Stream, and traverses the still Sargasso Sea, and even the extremity of the westward equatorial current. At Last
In 1500 Cabral with a Portuguese expedition bound for India was so far driven out of his course by equatorial currents that he came upon Brazil, which he claimed for the king of Portugal. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Also, we had to remember the equatorial current, which moves west at a rate of anywhere from twelve to seventy-five miles a day. The Cruise of the Snark
So, with the Snark, the resultant of her smallness, of the trade around into the east, and of the strong equatorial current, was a long sag south. The Cruise of the Snark
Then there was the north equatorial current setting westward like a mighty river. The Cruise of the Snark
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