North Pacific Current

American  

noun

1. a warm current flowing eastward across the Pacific Ocean.

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Example Sentences

For more than a century, Spanish ships laden with Chinese porcelain and silk followed the North Pacific Current to northern California, then south.

From Seattle Times

Scoured by relentless waves and storms spawned by the North Pacific current, the island�s western face is a wild amalgam of bald-faced rocks and long thin beaches pounded by breaking surf.

From Time Magazine Archive