The Roaring Forties

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The wild winds of Bass Strait – known as the “Roaring Forties” whip over the lush pastures of Tasmania and Southern Victoria. So strong are these gales that the trees near the coast grow on an angle away from the wind.

The cleanest air in the world is carried by these winds – purifying the landscape – one that is free from pollution and foreign matter.

Water

Large antarctic swells magnify in Bass Strait, often creating ferocious and wild conditions.

This stretch of ocean is one of the most famous and legendary in the world.

Trace ocean elements and minerals are released from the stormy waves, and carried over the coastal pastures by the strong gales of of the Roaring Forties.

Land

The farming land found in Tasmania and Southern Victoria, where our Roaring Forties Lambs are grown, is some of the most nutrient rich, and well managed pastures anywhere in the world.

Combined with the temperate climate that the sea brings, it makes this region perfect for growing grass and fodder crops year round – a feat rarely matched by any other region in the world.

The “Roaring Forties” are named after the ferocious winds that circle the southern hemisphere at the 40th degrees of latitude.

Distant oceanic storms and swells that push up from Antarctica give rise to regular and strong westerly winds.

Blowing over thousands of kilometres of southern ocean, these famous trade winds carry the cleanest air in the world – as measured by the CSIRO monitoring station at Cape Grim.

With the climate tempered by the regular climate that the winds bring, the fertile lands of Southern Victoria and Tasmania provide green grass – year round.

It is one of the most ideal regions in the world to grow premium lamb.

The Roaring Forties
Highlighted region in Southern Australia