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In the Pacific, the Kuroshio Current also transports warm, tropical water into the productive temperate oceans of the mid-latitudes. Where the continental shelf nears the poleward-flowing Kuroshio, ...

In legal terms, the continental shelf is the extension of a country’s land territory under the sea. Besides adding a million square kilometers of seafloor to the U.S.—an area roughly twice the size of ...