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Convergence

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convergence, the noun

The antarctic convergence.

1972 Stonehouse, Bernard Animals of the Antarctic: the ecology of the Far South Peter Lowe: 38.

The sudden mixing which occurs at the Convergence is enough to kill or incapacitate many tiny animals and plants of the plankton ... which cannot tolerate rapid changes in temperature or salinity of their environment.

1993 Fiennes, Ranulph Mind over matter: the epic crossing of the Antarctic continent Sinclair-Stevenson, London: 279.

The Convergence is a turbulent area where the colder southern water sinks below the warmer waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

The Antarctic Dictionary, Hince, 2000; 89