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  2. North Pacific Current - Wikipedia

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    The North Pacific Current is formed by the collision of the Kuroshio Current, running northward off the coast of Japan, and the Oyashio Current, which is a cold subarctic current that flows south and circulates counterclockwise along the western North Pacific Ocean. In the eastern North Pacific off southern British Columbia, it splits into the ...

  3. California Current - Wikipedia

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    The California Current is part of the North Pacific Gyre, a large swirling current that occupies the northern basin of the Pacific. The related California Current Conservation Complex is a grouping of federally-designated marine protected areas that have been on the UNESCO list of tentative World Heritage Sites since 2017, which includes the ...

  4. Regent Hotels & Resorts - Wikipedia

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    Regent Hotels & Resorts is a British-American luxury hospitality brand, founded by hotelier Robert H. Burns in 1970. After passing through different owners since foundation, it is currently jointly owned by IHG Hotels & Resorts and Formosa International Hotels Corporation since July 2018, with hotels and resorts in Asia and Europe.

  5. Boundary current - Wikipedia

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    The reverse effect applies to the polar gyres – the sign of the wind stress curl and the direction of the resulting currents are reversed. The principal west-side currents (such as the Gulf Stream of the North Atlantic Ocean) are stronger than those opposite (such as the California Current of the North Pacific Ocean).

  6. Regent - Wikipedia

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    Regent is sometimes a formal title granted to a monarch's most trusted advisor or personal assistant. If the regent is holding the position due to their being in the line of succession, the compound term prince regent is often used; if the regent of a minor is their mother, and she is wife or widow of the king, she would be referred to as queen ...

  7. Kuroshio Current - Wikipedia

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    The Kuroshio Current (黒潮, "Black Tide"), also known as the Black Current or Japan Current (日本海流, Nihon Kairyū) is a north-flowing, warm ocean current on the west side of the North Pacific Ocean basin. It was named for the deep blue appearance of its waters.

  8. Davidson Current - Wikipedia

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    In oceanography, the Davidson Current is a coastal countercurrent of the Pacific Ocean running north along the western coast of the United States from Baja California, Mexico to northern Oregon, ending at about latitude 48°N, [1] [2] Its flow is adjacent to the California Current, but it flows north rather than south and hugs the coastline.

  9. Tamaeva V - Wikipedia

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    She served as regent for her predecessor Queen Tamaeva IV. Tamaeva V's reign was disrupted by ongoing French expansionism in the Pacific . She and her predecessor Tamaeva IV had previously attempted in vain to request a British protectorate to hold off French colonial pressure.

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