Agulhas
Americannoun
noun
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These turtles were likely sucked in by the warm Indian Ocean Agulhas Current, carried around the tip of South Africa and spat out in the cold waters of the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Town.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2024
Their focus fell on the Agulhas Current, a fast-moving river of ocean water on the western edge of the Indian Ocean that sweeps southward along the coasts of Mozambique and South Africa.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 15, 2024
In October 2014, when he was a newborn, he was found stranded on Praia das Agulhas, in north-eastern Brazil, and taken in by Brazilian conservation NGO Aquasis.
From BBC • Sep. 6, 2022
The icebreaker, Agulhas II, left the search area on Tuesday for the 11-day voyage back to Cape Town.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2022
One of these lonely towers stands more than eight hundred feet above the sea-level, and warns ships off the terrible Agulhas Bank.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various
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