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Kamchatka Current

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Kamchatka Current 

a cold current in the northeasternPacific Ocean. It begins in the Bering Sea and moves southwardalong the shores of the Kamchatka Peninsula, where it becomesthe Kuril Current. The current is more than 300 km wide andflows at a speed of up to 2 km/hr. The temperature in Februarymeasures below 1°C; August, up to 10°C. Salinity is less than 32. 5 parts per thousand.
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And the volatile seas in that part of the world,just north of the disputed Kurile Islands archipelago, whom both the Russian Federation and Japan have claimed as their territory, are noted for being subject to the whims of the subarctic Kamchatka Current.
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