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From: Glacial Indonesian Throughflow weakening across the Mid-Pleistocene Climatic Transition

Figure 1

Overview map of oceanic circulation in the ITF region and its links to the Agulhas Current. Note the main path of the ITF through the Timor Strait feeding the Leeuwin Current (LC). Major oceanographic currents after29,99,100,101. The base map was generated with GeoMapApp (http://www.geomapapp.org)102. Other currents shown: The Indian and Pacific Ocean South Equatorial Current (SEC), South Equatorial Counter Current (SECC), and the Pacific North Equatorial (NEC) and North Equatorial Counter Current (NECC). The Northeast and Southeast Madagascar Current (NEMC and SEMC), the East Australian currant (EAC) East African Coastal Current (EACC), South Java Current (SJC), Mozambique Current (MC), Mozambique Current Eddies (MCE), Agulhas Return Current (ARC), Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), West Australia Current (WAC), Leeuwin UnderCurrent (LUC), Leeuwin Current Eddies (LUE), Flinders Current (FC), Tasman Outflow (TO). Major ITF paths: 1) Makassar Strait; 2) Lombok Strait; 3) Ombai Strait; 4) Timor Passage.

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