West Wind Drift

[ wind ]

noun

1. Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

Example Sentences

Bergs in this region end up floating on the currents past the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, Scambos said, and finally get caught up in a current called the West Wind Drift, or Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

From Scientific American

Up from the south he had come in an age when the seas he sailed were no less strange than the land he touched from time to time; the blue waste of sky and sea as boundless then as now; the west wind drift as sure and unfailing; the waves as savage or as mild; the star by which he laid his course as far away and immutable,—but he came in 1501 and his ship was alone in the trackless ocean.

From Project Gutenberg

They were slowly but surely edging into the strong west wind drift.

From Project Gutenberg

The Great West Wind Drift, setting squarely into the teeth of the easterly gale, kicked up a tideway sea that was monstrous. 

From Project Gutenberg

And then the Elsinore flung down, and Margaret’s hand clutched tighter for holding, while from the hidden depths arose the crash and thunder of the great west wind drift upon our decks.

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