- The Canary Current is the part of the Atlantic Gyre which flows south along the African Coast through the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands. It is a surface current driven by the wind, used by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians to explore West Africa.
- It then turns west after the Cape Verde Islands and becomes the North Equatorial Current, a westward wind driven current, flowing towards the Caribbean.
Hanno the Navigator
- Hanno the Navigator was Hanno II, King of Carthage between c.480-440 BCE.
- Hanno describes a voyage with a Fleet of 60 ships, leaving Carthage and passing through the Strait of Gibraltar.
- Carthage entrusted him to create seven colonies along the coast of West Africa, from Morocco to the Gulf of Guinea.
Canary Current