The authors addressed appropriately all comments from both Reviewers 1 and 2.

I do not object the authors' decision to add Fig.6c and encourage authors to add the motivation ("... this is a key quantity, climatically relevant for the distribution of water masses equatorward and poleward." as stated in the authors' response) in the main text.

I would also ask authors to double-check the explanation of the term "bifurcation" at L.343 saying "...meridional transport along the coast of Australia changes from equtorward to poleward". The explanation sounds like the one for "retroflexion" (such as in Agulhas Current). Did you mean "zonal to meridional"?

L.17: Expand EAC in Abstract.
L.94: Please also expand "OCCIPUT" if this is an acronym in the 1st appearance.
L.130: Brankart et al. (2015) is missing in the reference list.
L.483: "punctually" here is difficult to understand.