Benguela Current

American  

noun

1. a cold ocean current flowing N along the W coast of southern Africa.

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Example Sentences

The west is sapped of moisture, in part by the Atlantic Ocean’s cold Benguela Current.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

There, the Benguela Current Ecosystem produces more than twice as much phytoplankton as Peru's Humboldt system, and about nine times as much as the California Current system.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2013

The biomass of sardines alone in the Benguela Current was once about 25 million tons, or about a third of the entire world's current annual take from the sea.

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2013

Temperatures at one of the "Fram's" and one of the "Valdivia's" Stations, in the Benguela Current 15.

From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2 by Chater, Arthur G.

Temperatures at one of the "Fram's" and one of the "Valdivia's" Stations, in the Benguela Current 435 15.

From The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2 by Chater, Arthur G.