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Which among the following is a warm ocean current of the Pacific Ocean ?
Answer: A
The warm Pacific current is the Kuroshio current.
The Kuroshio, or Japan Current, carries warm tropical water north-east along the east coast of Taiwan and Japan as the western boundary current of the North Pacific gyre, the Pacific counterpart of the Gulf Stream.
The Mozambique current (spelt 'Mozambiqe' in the paper) is warm but in the Indian Ocean. The Canaries current is a cold current of the North Atlantic, off north-west Africa. The Humboldt (Peru) current is a Pacific current but a cold one, flowing north along the coast of South America.
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