Kuro Sivo
or JAPAN CURRENT, the Gulf Stream of the Pacific; is the offspring of the great equatorial current, flows past Formosa, Japan, the Kuriles, the Aleutian Islands, and thence bends S. to California. It is much inferior to the Gulf Stream, both in volume and high temperature.
KURSHOUMLIA or KURSUMLIJA, a village in the province of Toplica, on the river Toplica, 35 miles S. W. of Nish, Siberia. It is sustained largely by agriculture and has a population of 2,000. Some heavy fighting occurred in and around the village during the invasion of the Austro-Germans in the World War.