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Torres Straits, another south along the east coast of 

 Australia. 



In the Southern summer the south-east trades only prevail 

 between the Peruvian coast and the Marquesas Islands, so the 

 current is somewhat modified in its eastern branches. 



The Equatorial Counter-Current runs in an easterly 

 direction between the two above — from Mindanao and Gilolo 



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in the west to the Gulf of Panama. Like the Guinea Current 

 in the Adantic and the Equatorial Counter-Current in the 

 Indian Océan, the Equatorial Counter-Current of the Pacific 

 is a compensation stream. It sends off a branch in the Gulf of 

 Panama to the southward. 



The Japan Current is the prolongation of the North 

 Equatorial Current in a northerly and north-easterly 

 direction. 



In winter the current bends to the north at the northern 

 extremity of Luzon, passes Formosa on the east side, where it 



