South Pacific
Since 1950 tropical depressions that were judged to have intensified into a tropical cyclone, within the Southern Pacific ocean have been named. Female names were used exclusively until the current convention of alternating male and female names commenced in 1975.
Read more about this topic: List Of Historic Tropical Cyclone Names
Famous quotes containing the words south and/or pacific:
“The white gulls south of Victoria
catch tossed crumbs in midair.
When anyone hears the Catbird
he gets lonesome.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.... It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)