+-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | NORTH POLE | | | | Calms and high pressure over the interior of Greenland. | | Out-blowing winds at the border. | | | | More or less broken subarctic belt of low pressure. | | | | Prevailing westerlies (much interrupted by moving cyclones and | | anticyclones). | | | | Belt of high pressure at about lat. 30° N. “Horse latitudes,” or | | “calms of Cancer.” | | | | Northeast trade winds. | | | | Equatorial belt of low pressure, calms, and variable winds. The | | “doldrums.” | | | | Southeast trade winds. | | | | Belt of high pressure at about lat. 30° S. “Calms of Capricorn.” | | | | Prevailing westerlies, more constant than in the northern | | hemisphere. “Brave west winds.” | | | | Subantarctic belt of very low pressure. | | | | Calms and high pressure over the interior of Antarctica. Violent | | outblowing winds at its border. | | | | SOUTH POLE | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ WIND AND PRESSURE BELTS OF THE GLOBE.