Abstract
The resultant flow calculated from eight simultaneous near-surface current measurements made with moored current meters anchored near seven of the Leeward Islands (from 23°N to 28°N) of the Hawaiian archipelago during a 45-day period in April and May 1969 was to the northeast between 23°N and 25°N and to the northwest between 26°N and 28°N at approximately 5 cm/sec. If these data are interpreted as the local flow near the islands, they indicate the anticyclonic circulation around oceanic islands discussed by Stockmann (1966). Interpreted on a large scale, the observed flow could indicate the existence of the north-eastward-flowing subtropical countercurrent theoretically predicted by Yoshida and Kidokoro (1967a, b) and indicated in bathythermograph data (Robinson, 1969) as well as hydrographic data (Seckel, 1968; Yoshida, 1970).
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