Oyashio

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Oyashio [ō′yā·shē·ō]

(oceanography)

A cold current flowing from the Bering Sea southwest along the coast of Kamchatka, past the Kuril Islands, continuing close to the northeast coast of Japan, and reaching nearly 35°N.

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