Warm-water current flowing nortwards along the coast of British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle
Schematic of the Gulf of Alaska coastal area with Alaska Current, Alaskan Stream and Alaska Coastal Currents. The Alaska Current flows northward along the west coast of North America. It turns westward at the highest point of the Gulf of Alaska.
The Alaska Current is a southwestern shallow warm-water current alongside the west coast of the North American continent beginning at about 48-50°N. The Alaska Current produces large clockwise eddies at two sites: west of the Haida Gwaii ("Haida Eddies") and west of Sitka, Alaska ("Sitka Eddy").
