South Atlantic Current

South Atlantic Current is an eastward ocean current, fed by the Brazil Current. That fraction of it which reaches the African coast feeds the Benguela Current. It is continuous with the northern edge of the West Wind Drift.

The seafaring is usually easier and thus safer in area of the South Atlantic Current than in the West Wind Drift, though also slower.

References

Scott Guhin, Pallav Ray, Arthur J. Mariano, Edward H. Ryan (2003). "The South Atlantic Current". Ocean Surface Currents. University of Miami. Retrieved 2007-08-19.

Ocean currents and gyres

Currents

Arctic Ocean	East Greenland Norwegian Transpolar Drift Stream

Atlantic Ocean	Agulhas Angola Antilles Azores Baffin Island Benguela Brazil Canary Cape Horn Caribbean East Greenland East Iceland Falkland Florida Guinea Gulf Stream Irminger Labrador Lomonosov Loop North Atlantic North Brazil North Equatorial Norwegian Portugal Slope Jet South Atlantic South Equatorial Spitsbergen West Greenland

Indian Ocean	Agulhas East Madagascar Equatorial Counter Current Indian Monsoon Current Indonesian Throughflow Leeuwin Madagascar Mozambique Somali South Australian South Equatorial West Australian

Pacific Ocean	Alaska Aleutian California Cromwell East Australia Equatorial Counter Current Humboldt Indonesian Throughflow Kamchatka Kuroshio Mindanao North Equatorial North Pacific Oyashio South Equatorial

Southern Ocean	Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Gyres

Major gyres	Indian Ocean Gyre North Atlantic Gyre South Atlantic Gyre North Pacific Gyre South Pacific Gyre

Other gyres	Beaufort Gyre Ross Gyre Weddell Gyre

South Atlantic Current

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References