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WATER MASSES AND CURRENTS OF THE OCEANS 



Stream. When the Circumpolar Current has passed New Zealand, a 

 bend toward the north, which corresponds on a small scale to the Falkland 

 Current, is evident. 



The transport line marked ''zero" is not continuous around the 

 Antarctic Continent, but begins in the Weddell Sea area and ends against 

 the coast of the Antarctic Continent in the region of the Ross Sea. This 



Fig. 57. Transport lines around the Antarctic Continent. Between two lines 

 the transport relative to the 3000-decibar surface is about 20 million cm^/sec. 



feature indicates that our representation is not entirely correct and that 

 the transport does not exactly take place along the lines that have been 

 entered, because actual lines of equal transport must be closed lines and 

 cannot end against the shores. Some transport must take place across 

 the lines, and the fact that our ''zero" line stops against the continent 

 to the west of Drake Passage indicates that in this narrow passage a cer- 

 tain amount of piling up of water takes place and that transport occurs 

 here across the contour lines. If the flow is referred to the dynamic 



