(oceanography) An ocean current flowing eastward (counter to and between the westward-flowing North Equatorial Current and South Equatorial Current) through all the oceans.
Equatorial Countercurrent
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- Pacific Equatorial Countercurrent (oceanography)
- Rossel Current (oceanography)
- Ocean Currents
- Equatorial currents (oceanography)
- Indian Ocean (oceanography)
- Pacific Ocean (history 1450-1789)
- ocean
- Townsend Cromwell
- North Equatorial Current
- Guinea Current
- Sonsorol
