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Describe one effect of each of the following three ocean currents.

(i) Labrador Current of the Atlantic Ocean.

(ii) The Kuroshio current

(iii) Oyashio Current of the Pacific Ocean.

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(i) The waters of the Labrador current have a cooling effect on the Canadian Atlantic provinces and coastal New England.

(ii) The warm waters of the Kuroshio current sustain the coral reefs in the world.

(iii) Oyashio current has an important impact on the climate of the Russian Far East, mainly in Kamchatka and Chukotka.

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