In winter, winds blow by pulses through a mountain pass across the Tehuantepec Isthmus (Mexico) to fan out over the Mexican Pacific in the center of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, generating large mesoscale eddies.

The Agulhas eddies are formed by retroflection of the Agulhas current, current, which runs along the southeastern coast of the African continent.

The Ierapetra gyre is an anticyclonic gyre that forms as a result of wind interactions with the relief on Crete and of ocean circulation in the Kasos strait

In the Mediterranean Sea, near the Gibraltar strait in the Alboran Sea, the atlantic jet generates one or even two anticyclonic eddies.