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Figure 5.6
Vertical transect of (a) temperature and (b) salinity on a transect from South Africa to the
Antarctic continent. The major oceanographic fronts marked are the Subtropical Front (STF), Polar Front
(PF), SubAntarctic Front (SAF), Southern Circumpolar Current Front (SCF), Weddell Front (WF), Continental
Water Boundary (CWB) and the Antarctic Slope Front (ASF). (Credit: Eberhard Fahrbach, AWI)
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