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Hurricane Nomenclature
- "A hurricane is called a hurricane in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic, but a cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and a typhoon in the China Sea and most of the Pacific." - excerpt from The Ocean Almanac, by Robert Hendrickson, Doubleday Dell Publishing, 1984, pg. 294.
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