North Pacific Current

noun

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

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.

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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.

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