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Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current

Morgan, Ruth

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“WHERE IS THE LEEUWIN CURRENT?” asked Australian oceanographer George Cresswell in 1991. A decade earlier, Cresswell had named the shallow stream of warm low-salinity water after a Dutch East India Company vessel (the Lioness) that had charted the area in the early seventeenth century.

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Date published: 2020
Type: Book chapter
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/283902
Book Title: Weather, Climate and the Geographical Imagination
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv10h9g13.8

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