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Ficure 1—Chart of Tasman Sea showing deflection of the cold Antarctic drift 
by the warm East Australian current from the Tropics. (From W. C. Davies 
(12).) 
influence of the warm Tasman Sea on the prevailing westerly winds 
which blow over it from Australia, over a thousand miles away. In 
its oceanic climate lies the explanation of many of its vegetational 
contrasts with other countries. 
The vegetation in northern New Zealand is far more tropical in 
appearance than its geographical counterpart in North Carolina. 
