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A hand-drawn 1943 United States Army map of world ocean currents and drift ice, as they were known at the time. An ocean current is continuous, directed movement of seawater, like rivers of hot or cold water within the ocean. They are generated from the forces acting upon the water like the Earth's rotation, the wind, the temperature, salinity differences and the gravitation of the moon.Map credit: United States Army