. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. SUBTROPICAL WATER: MOVEMENTS 77 coastal region east of Cape Leeuwin (see Schott, 1933, pi. 28). At all times of the year the current south of North-West Cape has a tendency to set towards the shore, and there is no upwelling of cold water along the coast, such as that which is found off the west coasts of Africa and South America. At the northern end of section 10 (Plates XIX-XXI), south-east of Cape Leeuwin, the surface water had a temperature of about 210 C. with a salinity of 35-6 °/0O, prope


. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions; Ocean; Antarctica; Falkland Islands. SUBTROPICAL WATER: MOVEMENTS 77 coastal region east of Cape Leeuwin (see Schott, 1933, pi. 28). At all times of the year the current south of North-West Cape has a tendency to set towards the shore, and there is no upwelling of cold water along the coast, such as that which is found off the west coasts of Africa and South America. At the northern end of section 10 (Plates XIX-XXI), south-east of Cape Leeuwin, the surface water had a temperature of about 210 C. with a salinity of 35-6 °/0O, properties which are very similar to those of the southward coastal current found west of Fremantle. Between 370 and 380 20' S there was a further body of warm water LONGITUDE STATION 2000—«« i5-oo4=: 500m I 000m. Fig. 17. The vertical distribution of temperature between o and 1000 m. along a section extending 185 miles west of Fremantle, West Australia, May 1932. LONGITUDE STATION 500m 1000m. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography of Great Britain; Great Britain. Colonial Office. Discovery Committee. London ; New York : Cambridge University Press


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