The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...

“after passing south of New Zealand, flows northward into the Pacific Ocean as a narrow western boundary current along the Tonga–Kermadec Trench”. It seems surprising that the source water ...

As global electricity use grows, the strain on traditional energy sources increases. Renewable options like wind and solar ...

Historically, the ocean ... toward South America, transporting small fish, larvae, and other microorganisms from the Indian Ocean. Researchers using the ECCO model can study Agulhas Current ...

Fiji, an archipelago of over 300 islands in the South Pacific, is a biodiversity hotspot ... these iguanas rafted 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across the Pacific Ocean from North America—the longest ...

The Tropic of Capricorn also runs through South America. The Pacific Ocean is to the west of South America and the Atlantic Ocean is to the north and east. South America contains twelve countries ...

The nearest ocean to the ... to North and South America, and is the second largest of the five oceans. The water in the oceans is constantly moving in patterns called currents.