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What does Gulf Stream mean?

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Proper noun
  1. The warm ocean current issuing from the Gulf of Mexico, flowing northeastwards along the coast of North America to the Grand Banks where it breaks eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean and helps to maintain warm temperatures along the western coasts of the British Isles.
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Indeed, many of the mesopelagic species range far eastward with the Gulf Stream, outside our area and into the eastern Atlantic.
It is the Gulf Stream, or North Atlantic Drift, that gives the United Kingdom the temperate climate that we enjoy.
It has now been shown in many studies that the Gulf Stream brings the warm flow of water that helps keep our weather hospitable.
Yes, the climate is extreme, but there is a definite autumn, winter, spring and summer thanks to the Gulf Stream, which washes the coastline.
And so the old man, alone, ventures out into the Gulf Stream where he hooks the largest marlin ever seen.
He studied seawater luminescence and ocean temperatures while charting the path of the Gulf Stream.

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