Continents
It is suggestion that perhaps the continents had once been connected with each other and had drifted apart forming different continents. Antarctica was once near to the equator.
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The Map on this page is showing the course of the Gulf Stream which flows north-east across the Atlantic Ocean. Its waters warm passing winds and give North-West Europe a relatively mild winter climate.
Gulf Stream
This is the ocean current that flows across the Atlantic Ocean from Florida towards Europe and North Africa. The Gulf Stream is part of the generally clockwise circulation of water in the North Atlantic. The North Equatorial Current combines with water from the Gulf of Mexico. They pass Florida at a speed of about 80 miles a day. This current of warm water then flows along the coast of America, separated from it by a strip of cold water, as far as Newfoundland, where fogs are caused as warm winds meet cold water from the Arctic. The Gulf Stream then spreads out into a slow drift of warm water across the Atlantic, called the North Atlantic Drift.
When the Drift meets the continental shelf of Europe, it divides in two. One branch flows south towards Africa. The other flows around the coasts of northwest Europe, affecting the climates. If it were not for the Gulf Stream, winter in countries from France and Britain to Norway would be much more severe. Harbors would ice up and snow would lie on the ground all winter.
