The cold Benguela Current in the Atlantic Ocean has a moderating influence on the coastal climate with only small variations in diurnal and seasonal temperatures.
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The "'crowned cormorant "'( " Microcarbo coronatus " ) is a small cormorant that is endemic to the waters of the cold Benguela Current of southern Africa.
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Species with endemic distributions include " Nyctiphanes capensis ", which occurs only in the Benguela current, and the six " Euphausia " species native to the Southern Ocean.
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The " South African Journal of Marine Science ", in Volume 8, Issue 1 of 1989, published a description of the species'larval development in the southern Benguela Current.
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Cape Point is often mistakenly claimed to be the place where the cold Benguela Current of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Agulhas Current of the Indian ocean collide.
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Surface water filaments are estimated to account for up to 13 % of the total salt transport from the Agulhas Current into the Benguela Current and South Atlantic Gyre.
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The genus " Persea " died out in increasingly xerophytic Africa, starting with the freezing of Antarctica about 20 million years ago and the formation of the Benguela current.
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Fogs that originate offshore from the collision of the cold Benguela Current and warm air from the Hadley Cell create a fog belt that frequently envelops parts of the desert.
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She made one last voyage, surveying the Benguela Current off the west coast of Africa, before finally being sold for scrapping by the British Iron and Steel Corporation in 1954.
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On the coast the upwelling of the cold Benguela current gives rise to dense ocean fogs ( called " cassimbo " by the Angolans ) for much of the year.
