Home of The Blizzard
In his book, The Home of the Blizzard, Mawson talked of "Herculean gusts" on 24 May 1912 which he learned afterwards "approached two hundred miles per hour", and that the average wind speed for March was 49 miles per hour; April 51.5 miles per hour and May was 67.719 miles per hour. These winds have been referred to as katabatic: "a wind that carries high density air from a higher elevation down a slope under the force of gravity (south magnetic pole)".
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