East Australia Current

[¦ēst ȯ′strāl·yə ‚kə·rənt]

(oceanography)

The current which is formed by part of the South Equatorial Current and flows southward along the eastern coast of Australia.

References in periodicals archive

The continuous plankton recorder survey stretched from the Leeuwin Current in the west to the East Australia Current off NSW.

Indian Ocean major carbon sink say expedition scientists

On this part of the race track one must consider the state of the East Australia Current as well as the weather.

(viii) East Australia Current. Apart from the obvious advantages in capturing current moving south with you, whenever the situation arises where surface wind opposes the current, a very nasty seaway can be created.

Take the weather with you: the question often arises as we head towards the big race at Christmas from a weather strategy point of view, what must I consider as I race to Hobart?

In winter cool water flows eastward through the Bass Strait and plunges down the continental shelf under the warm East Australia Current like a waterfall, creating choppy waters above.

Landscapes of the deep: enter the South-east Marine Region; a vast but concealed part of Australia, a place unlike any other and teeming with wonderful and bizarre creatures barely known to us

* The Australian Continuous Plankton Recorder survey (AusCPR) has successfully deployed a plankton recorder behind the commercial vessel ANL Windarra from Brisbane to Melbourne on 27-29 June, collecting the first monthly samples for phytoplankton and zooplankton species identification along the East Australia Current.

Flashing stars light up the Reef's shelf

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