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A large collection of historic and recent hydrographic data has been used in a water-mass mixing model to quantify the remote sources of intermediate water that pass through the region around southern Africa. Special emphasis has been given to deriving the fractional transports of water with Indian Ocean origins that enter the South Atlantic and that thus contribute to the overturning circulation...