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Identifier: europeotherconti00tarr (find matches)
Title: Europe and other continents
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Tarr, Ralph S. (Ralph Stockman), 1864-1912 McMurray, Frank Morton, 1862- (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t eddyof the North Pacific. Where this drift crosses from Japan it is known as theJapan Current (Fig. 38). In its waters tree trunks andother tropical products are borne far away to the treelessislets northeast of Japan. The northward bend of theisotherms over the ocean (Fig.- 36) suggests the enormousstores of heat which this current carries from the torrid£one. The westerly winds bear some of this warmth tothe western slopes of Canada and the United States. A small branch of the current turns northward along theAlaskan coast, and its warm waters temper the winds of Alaska.There is also a current between the Japan Current and thecoast of Asia. But this is a drift of cold water from the north,as you can see by noticing how it bends the isotherms south-ward near the coast (Fig. 37). Winds from this cold currentchill the Siberian coast, and cause the harbors, like that ofVladivostok, to be icebound in winter. This explains whyKussia has leased the Chinese harbor at Port Arthur south of
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Wi J4H 48 GENERAL GEOGRAPHY Korea, as a terminus of the great Siberian railway, — that hercommerce and war-ships might not be shut up in winter. Eddies of the Southern Oceans. — In the South Pacific,South Atlantic, and Indian oceans, the same causes haveproduced eddies similar to that of the North Pacific ; buthere the earths rotation deflects both winds and watercurrents to the left. Some of the water of these eddiesjoins the broad West Wind Drift of the distant southernocean ; but much of it turns northward until it once morereaches the trade-wind belt, thus completing the eddies. The north-moving portion of these eddies brings cool watertoward the equator and thus chills the ocean, and, therefore,the winds that blow upon the neighboring lands. On Fig-ure 36 find some places where the isotherms bend northward,showing this effect of these currents. Where do they bendsouthward, showing that warm water is being carried fromthe torrid zone ? Compare the isothermal and ocean currentc

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