Roaring Forties

strong westerly winds found in the Southern Hemisphere
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Roaring Forties

Summary

Roaring Forties is a wind[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of wind entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (534 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Roaring Forties's instance of is recorded as wind[3].
  • Roaring Forties's location is recorded as Southern Hemisphere[4].
  • Roaring Forties's Commons category is recorded as Roaring Forties[5].
  • Roaring Forties's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0218n1[6].
  • Roaring Forties's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[7].
  • Roaring Forties's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[8].
  • Roaring Forties's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/roaring-forties[9].
  • Roaring Forties's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as roaring_forties[10].
  • Roaring Forties's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as roaring-forties-meteorologie[11].
  • Roaring Forties's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3970377[12].

Why It Matters

Roaring Forties ranks in the top 7% of wind entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (534 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Roaring Forties. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/roaring-forties
MLA “Roaring Forties.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/roaring-forties.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_roaring-forties_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Roaring Forties}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/roaring-forties}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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