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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 



FIG. 42. CURRENTS OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. 



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

 in the Atlantic and the Equatorial Counter-Current in the 

 Indian Ocean, 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 



