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At those dizzy heights the prevailing westerlies are in full force, blowing from eighty to two hundred miles an hour night after night and day after day.
This interferes with the stable planetary winds, such as the trades of low latitudes and the prevailing westerlies of higher latitudes.
Towards the poles there is no obvious limit to the temperate zones, for the prevailing westerlies extend beyond the polar circles.
IT, or rather she, didn’t go back over the Pacific, perhaps because of the prevailing westerlies.
Captain Davis had visited the island in the 'Nimrod', and was acquainted with the three anchorages, which are all on the east side and sheltered from the prevailing westerlies.
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