CURRENTS AND STREAMS 33 



In the south-seas there are still other great 

 ocean streams which flow easterly, for in the 

 broad sweep of the South Pacific and South 

 Indian oceans there is open water completely 

 around the earth and no land interferes to 

 check the flow of water from the south polar 

 regions which flows north to take the place 

 of the warm water of the Brazilian and East 

 Australian currents. A large portion of this 

 great mass of cold water travels northeast, 

 strikes the western coast of South America 

 and is deflected to the west, where it mingles 

 with the warm water of the equatorial cur- 

 rent and forms the Australian Current An- 

 other vast amount of cold water travels up 

 along the western coast of Africa and forms 

 the Benguela Current, while still another of 

 the south-polar streams flows west of Aus- 

 tralia around the Indian Ocean and between 

 Africa and Madagascar and forms the Mo- 

 zambique Current, These three currents, in 

 combination with the East Australian and 

 Brazilian currents, form immense, almost- 

 circular ocean rivers far more regular than 

 either the Gulf Stream or the Japan Stream, 



