The Australia directory. [With] |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
The Australia Directory. [With] <span dir=ltr>Admiralty Hydrogr. Dept</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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קטעים בולטים
עמוד 8 - SE trade wind in the Indian ocean will be found between the parallels of 10° and 28° S., from the west coast of Australia to within a few degrees of Madagascar, its northern and southern limits changing two or three degrees to the north or south, according as the sun has north or south declination. When the sun is at its greatest distance north of the equator, the wind veers more to the southward, varying from SE to SSE; and when at its greatest distance south of the equator, the wind takes a more...
עמוד 9 - ... near the northern tropic, and receding to 10° or 11° S. when the sun is near the southern tropic. The NW or westerly monsoon is subject to many irregularities, with occasional heavy gales, thunder, lightning, and rain ; it sometimes does not set in before November or December, rarely blowing with regularity and strength except in December and January, when it occupies a zone comprised between lat. 10° or 12° S., and 2° or 3° N.
עמוד iii - Marine, will transmit to the Secretary of the Admiralty a notice of any errors or omissions they may discover, or any fresh information they may obtain, with a view to its improvement for the general benefit of navigation.
עמוד 5 - Pulo Sapatu early in October; for near this island, about the middle of that month, strong southerly currents begin to prevail with light northerly winds, variable airs, and calms, by which many vessels have been delayed for several days, and have made no progress to the northward.
עמוד 10 - May the winds in the open sea are often light and variable, and easterly or southeast winds are likely to occur for a day or two at a time during the whole of the southwest monsoon, particularly in the northern part of the China sea, where these winds are frequently experienced in both monsoons. ' • The southwest monsoon is at its greatest strength...
עמוד 220 - May is the month in which the winter weather fairly sets in, and it rarely happens that the middle of this month passes without the rains having commenced. This season seems to vary. but little as to the time and manner of setting in — it is ushered in by blowing weather, from about NNE, the wind gradually veering round to the westward, as it increases in strength. The first of this weather usually lasts from a week to fourteen days ; then comes an interval of...
עמוד 20 - ... the latter will have it from ESE or East. But to avoid confusion arising from this the different names of the monsoons, the old names of the NW and SE will be here preserved, according to the case in question. In the Java Sea, like that of the Moluccas, the NW monsoon commences in the first part of November ; and does not attain its height till December. It continues till the end of March, a time when the weather is varied by calms, light winds, squalls, rain, &c. The SE monsoon commences in...
עמוד 5 - Macclesfield bank, is preferable, both on account of the sea being free from dangers and the winds being more steady in the open sea than near the coast. About full and change of the moon, and as early as April, a westerly breeze will sometimes be found blowing out of the gulf of Siam to carry...
עמוד 11 - February the strength of the north-east monsoon abates ; during this month and March it blows moderately, with steady weather all over the China Sea, inclining to land and sea breezes on the coast of Luconia.
עמוד 6 - North, and never fall in with the islands to the westward ; this is the more necessary after the middle of August, when easterly winds are likely to prevail several days together, as they are, more or less, at all seasons. If a vessel falls to leeward about St John, in September or October, she will generally make a tedious passage to Macao if she keeps close along the islands, where the current or freshes setting westward will oblige her frequently to anchor ; as these freshes prevail only in shoal...