. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. ?W PACIFIC OCEAN Q Taiwan 6-4 TYPHOON ISLANDS danao â v :ooo km. 40°N -- 0 Figure 1 A portion of the world indicating positions of the three compared archipelagos and some other place names mentioned in the text. shadow zones of the high, montane, cloud- barrier islands in the Lesser Antilles: the near-constant rain and inconstant winds pre- clude them. The name "Typhoon Islands" is herein coined as well because no prior name for the whole group exists. Ten of 12 banks are within the Philippines. Five, cent
. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Zoology. ?W PACIFIC OCEAN Q Taiwan 6-4 TYPHOON ISLANDS danao â v :ooo km. 40°N -- 0 Figure 1 A portion of the world indicating positions of the three compared archipelagos and some other place names mentioned in the text. shadow zones of the high, montane, cloud- barrier islands in the Lesser Antilles: the near-constant rain and inconstant winds pre- clude them. The name "Typhoon Islands" is herein coined as well because no prior name for the whole group exists. Ten of 12 banks are within the Philippines. Five, centrally lo- cated, make up the Province of the Batanes. Five, in the South, are collectively called the Babuyans and assigned to Cagayan Province, Luzon. Two banks belong to China. The larger of these, Hungtou Hsu Bank, harbors the large island of Lanyu, or Botel Tobago, or Orchid Island (Ota, 1987); the other is tiny Lu Tao. The Typhoon Islands lie closely congruent with the principal pathway of the greatest of Earth's cyclonic storms âPacific typhoons â and span Luzon Strait from the oceanic Phil- ippines to just east of the continental shelf island of Taiwan, China. Much of the warm surface water of the tropical Pacific passes through the Far Moluccas, the Celebes, and Sulu Seas, and forms a huge clockwise gyre in the South China Sea. This water exits again into the Pacific through Luzon Strait. Most of the tropical Pacific's surface water is deflected northward off New Guinea and the Philippines. The present island chain lies where the confluence of these two streams forms Kuro Siwo, the Japan (or Black) Cur- rent. The Pacific Ocean and South China Sea have different tidal regimes that dramatically affect water movement in Luzon Strait. To the east of the Typhoon Islands the open Pacific extends some 9,500 km: the greatest fetch of the northeast Trades on Earth. Im- mediately to the northwest begins the huge Eurasian landmass that generates the sea- sonal wind patterns c
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