HORSE LATITUDES

This article refers to the geographical area. See also Horse latitudes (disambiguation) Horse latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropical latitudes  between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the Subtropical ridge, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm. It owes its name to the fact that the confused sea, muggy heat, and rolling and pitching of waves (variably stilled and aerated by winds) often slowed colonial ships for days to weeks due to lack of propulsion. In order to reduce the weight of the ship and to conserve water, the crew would throw horses overboard, subsequently increasing the speed of the ship in the low winds.
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Synonyms and related words:
Antarctic Zone, Arctic Circle, Arctic Zone, Frigid Zones, Torrid Zone, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Variable Zones, anticyclone, antitrades, calm, climate, clime, dead calm, deathlike calm, doldrums, equator, flat calm, latitude, longitude, longitude in arc, lull, meridian, oily calm, parallel, polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, prime meridian, roaring forties, subtropics, the line, trade wind, trades, tropic, tropics, wind-equator, windlessness, zone
  

horse latitudes /'hɔ:s'lætitju:dz/
danh từ số nhiều (hàng hải) độ vĩ ngựa (độ vĩ 30 35 o)
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danh từ số nhiều
(hàng hải) độ vĩ ngựa (độ vĩ 30 35 o)

Eng: horse latitudes
Urdu: عرُوض سکُون ۔ ۳۰ درجے شمالی اور ۳۰ درجے جنُوبی عرض بلد پر واقع بُلند دباوٴ کی دو پٹیوں میں سے ایک ۔