Antarctic Convergence

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the fairly well-defined boundary that exists between the cold Antarctic waters and the warmer waters to the north and can be traced around the world.

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The convergence of these signs lit Morris up like a firecracker.
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Republican political operatives say the gains the GOP is set to make are due to a convergence of causes.
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As forbidding as this terrain is, there is another force at work on the ocean surface – the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
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It was this complete convergence of events and really kismet, what happened to Marge Gunderson.
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But regardless of their different lenses, she said, “there seems to be a convergence of interests” between the two sides.
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The merchant would no longer expose his cargoes to the mountainous billows and capricious gales of the Antarctic seas.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay
We tried to edge nearer her, but she was just beyond the convergence of two side currents which pushed us even further away.
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They strung out and started for the Antarctic Ocean, with a big old wicker-worked demijohn in the lead.
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He had not perfectly proved the impossibility of an antarctic continent.
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The non-existence of an antarctic continent was definitely ascertained.
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