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roaring forties
noun
(roaring forties)
a tract of ocean between roughly 40 and 50 degrees latitude south characterized by strong westerly winds and rough seas; also : these winds
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southerly buster
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northwester
,
squally
,
windward
,
southwester
,
upwind
,
southeaster
,
sea breeze
,
southerly
,
sirocco
,
seawards
,
drake passage
,
blowy
,
westerlies
,
spindrift
,
gybing
,
leeward
,
rhumb line
,
anticyclone
,
mistral
,
abeam
,
gale
,
squall
,
downwind
,
becalmed
,
tasman sea
,
gybed
,
zephyr
,
lightnings
,
kerguelen
,
cape horn
,
namib desert
,
trysail
,
alvei
,
meridional
,
wester
,
bluebottles
,
ushant
,
icefield
,
thundery
,
cammas
,
sastrugi
,
spitzbergen
,
kts
,
spume
,
dismasting
,
northerly
,
leeward islands
,
windless
,
inshore
,
mizzen
,
spinnakers
,
scilly islands
,
shoreward
,
seracs
,
tyrrhenian
,
fringing reef
,
dews
,
saronic gulf
,
luff
,
whitecap
,
astern
,
ouessant
,
scudding
,
faeroe
,
gusty
,
northeastwards
,
bass strait
,
el nino
,
austral islands
,
dismasted
,
neap tide
,
equator
,
ligurian sea
,
sunward
,
isobars
,
tuamotu archipelago
,
skidoo
,
easterly
,
sailable
,
southwesterly
,
staysail
,
mugginess
,
coastward
,
halyards
,
breeze
,
dampest
,
ebb tide
,
parasails
,
foresail
,
showery
,
nullarbor plain
,
windy
,
tablelands
,
bergs
,
earthwards
,
topmast
,
beaufort scale
,
airstream
,
ijsselmeer
,
roaring forties
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