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South Pacific Current

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noun

  1. an ocean current that flows E in the South Pacific Ocean parallel to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

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Reports of a major naval engagement in the South Pacific, current for the past three weeks, dissolved into a story of they came, they saw, they changed their minds.

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