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screaming sixties

n. The area of the earth between 60 and 70 degrees south, prone to strong winds and extreme waves

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For the first thousand miles of its journey, the Salvation was hurried along by the winds of the Screaming Sixties, Furious Fifties, and Roaring Forties, the eastward-flowing circumpolar current, and of course, our fleet of oceangoing tugs.