NNW
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Their shape indicates the glacier moved in a NNW to SSE direction.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Friday and Saturday are looking at a jump in swell reaching shoulder to head high with improving conditions and N to NNW winds at 10mph.
From Time Magazine Archive
This Island is in length about 38 leagues, stretching NNW and SSE, and is in breadth about 24 leagues in the middle of the Island.
From History of the Buccaneers of America by Burney, James
Wind NNW; it felt like the blast of a heated oven, and in proportion as it increased the heat was found to be more intense, the sky hazy, the sun gleaming through at intervals.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
Twelve years before, as I passed up the Essequibo and the Cuyuni, I noticed hundreds of yellow butterflies each true to his little compass variation of NNW.
From Edge of the Jungle by Beebe, William
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