Word: axial
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...related to the formations of the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand. Those Antarctica mountains and the tremendous ice cap help make the South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean...
TIME stated that cyclones spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern, due to twist imparted to enveloping air currents by Earth's axial motion (Ferrel's law). No record is discoverable of the hypothetical case posed by Subscriber Harkness. From the nature of its spin and of prevailing air currents, a cyclone usually travels away from the Equator. Should one chance to be translated across the Line it would theoretically be retarded, dissipated, replaced by a fresh one of reverse spin...