Dictionary
retroflection
noun
Being bent backwards
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This eastward-flowing system circles the globe at latitudes of 40° 60° S. Icebergs tend to enter this current system at four well-defined longitudes or "retroflection zones": the Weddell Sea, east of the Kerguelen Plateau at longitude 90° E, west of the Balleny Islands at longitude 150° E, and in the northeastern Ross Sea.
Some words that are in dictionaries: Retroflexion or retroflection is the closest existing word we could use in this circumstance.
It then separates from the margin and curls back to the Indian Ocean in what is called the Agulhas Retroflection.
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