Editing Tasman Sea (section)

==Currents==
The [[East Australian Current]] that commences its flow southwards in the tropics of the Coral Sea, near the eastern coast of Australia is the most energetic circulation feature in the south western Pacific Ocean and is a primary means of heat transport from the tropics to the middle latitudes between Australia and New Zealand.<ref name="Bull2018">{{cite journal|last1 =Bull|first1 =C.Y.|last2 =Kiss|first2=A.E.|last3 =van Sebille|first3 =E.|last4 =Jourdain|first4 =N.C.|last5 =England|first5 =M.H.|year= 2018|title = The role of the New Zealand Plateau in the Tasman Sea circulation and separation of the East Australian Current|journal =Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans|volume =123|issue =2|pages =1457–1470|doi =10.1002/2017JC013412|doi-access =free|bibcode =2018JGRC..123.1457B|hdl =1885/203237|hdl-access =free}}</ref>{{rp|p=1458}} The East Australian Current is a return of the westward-flowing Pacific Equatorial Current (Pacific [[South Equatorial Current]]).<ref name="Sutherland2022">{{cite journal|last1 =Sutherland|first1 =R.|last2 =Dos Santos|first2 =Z.|last3 =Agnini|first3 =C.|last4 =Alegret|first4 =L.|last5 =Lam|first5 =A.R.|last6 =Westerhold|first6 =T.|last7 =Drake|first7 =M.K.|last8 =Harper|first8 =D.T.|last9 =Dallanave|first9 =E.|last10 =Newsam|first10 =C.|last11 =Cramwinckel|first11 =M.J.|year =2022|title =Neogene mass accumulation rate of carbonate sediment across northern Zealandia, Tasman Sea, southwest Pacific|journal =Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology|volume =37|issue =2|page =e2021PA004294|doi =10.1029/2021PA004294|doi-access =free|bibcode =2022PaPa...37.4294S}}{{rp|loc=Section 2. Tasman Sea Setting}}</ref> At the juncture between the Tasman and Coral seas while the East Australian Current continues south in the western Tasman a branch flows east called the [[Tasman Front]] towards the north of New Zealand with most continuing eastward above New Zealand into the South Pacific Ocean.<ref name="Sutherland2022" /> It transpires that while predominantly the location of westerly wind stress is a factor in how far north the formation of the Tasman Front occurs, so is the presence of the New Zealand land mass, as the top of New Zealand defines the furtherest south that the Tasman Front can be split off by the westerly winds.<ref name="Bull2018" />{{rp|1457,1467–8}} A boundary current called the East Auckland Current goes down the west coast of the North Island and further south the East Cape Current, that has been diverted towards the South Island by the shapes of the Lord Howe Rise and southern east coast of the North island continues to the south.<ref name="Bull2018" />{{rp|pp=1458}}<ref name="Sutherland2022" /> The East Australian Current south of Tasmania also is diverted west in the Subtropical Front which collides with the western moving Subantarctic front of the [[Antarctic Circumpolar Current]].<ref name="Sutherland2022" /> The East Australian Current sheds eddies on its way south that move south-westward with some known as the Tasman Leakage making it as far westward as the Indian Ocean.<ref name="Bull2018" />{{rp|pp=1458}}