Beaufort Gyre

The Beaufort Gyre is a clockwise, circular surface Arctic Ocean current and is one of the Arctic's main currents. It turns the Polar Ice Caps and makes 1 full rotation every four years. Gyre is a circular current in a basin. There are only five major gyre's and the Beaufort Gyre is one of the five. In the 1990's some of the ice began to melt before it finished its four-year rotation. The Beaufort Gyre is a major Arctic Current.