So in other words, concentrations of sea birds may start at the edge of one of these gyres. |
Major ocean currents sweep the region from east to west by the Caribbean Current, with coastal countercurrents and several large gyres. |
The ocean currents, called gyres, are swirled around by the earth's rotation and crimped by its land masses. This is uncontroversial. |
The gyre we planned to survey is one of the largest ocean realms on Earth, and one of five major subtropical gyres on the planet. |
Ocean currents flow in huge almost circular gyres thousands of kilometres across. |
Zones of minimum upwelling and, therefore, productivity, occur in the central regions of the oceans known as the gyres. |