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:
“While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“The doctor of Geneva stamped the sand
That lay impounding the Pacific swell,
Patted his stove-pipe hat and tugged his shawl.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)