List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century
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The List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 17th century encompasses all known and suspected Atlantic tropical cyclones from the 1600 to 1699. Although records of every storm that occurred do not survive, the information presented here originated in sufficiently populated coastal communities and ships at sea that survived the tempests.
Records of hurricane activity directly impacting America is very incomplete during the 1600s as colonists were sparse outside of the New England region or not existent until much later in the century or early 1700s, especially in the most hurricane prone regions of the coastal south, Florida and the Keys, and Gulf Coast.
1600–1624
1625–1649
1650–1674
1675–1699
– only paleotempestological evidence
See also
List of Atlantic hurricanes
Atlantic hurricane season
References
Further reading
Cardona Bonet, Walter A. (1989), Shipwrecks in Puerto Rico's history, 1502-1650, vol. I, Model Offset Printing, p. 371, ASIN B0006ES9D0, LCCN 89090750, OCLC 21376979
Garcia-Herrera, Ricardo; Luis, Gimeno; Ribera, Pedro; Hernandez, Emiliano (2005), "New records of Atlantic hurricanes from Spanish documentary sources", J. Geophys. Res., 110 (D3): D03109, Bibcode:2005JGRD..110.3109G, doi:10.1029/2004JD005272
Ludlum, David M. (1963), Early American hurricanes, 1492-1870, Boston: American Meteorological Society, OCLC 511649
Marx, Robert F. (1983), Shipwrecks in the Americas, New York: Bonanza Books, pp. 482, ISBN 0-517-41371-X, OCLC 9393846
Marx, Robert F. (1985) [1979], Spanish treasure in Florida waters: a billion dollar graveyard (Shipwrecks in Florida waters ed.), Boston: Mariners Press, p. 146, ISBN 0913352063, OCLC 5172392
Millás, José Carlos (1968), Hurricanes of the Caribbean and adjacent regions, 1492-1800, Miami: Academy of the Arts and Sciences of the Americas, OCLC 339427
Peterson, Mendel (1975), The funnel of gold, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 480, ISBN 0-316-70300-1
Potter, John Stauffer (1972), The Treasure Diver's Guide, New York: Doubleday, p.
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