ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the highest recorded wind speed for the Earth. The author begins the chapter with a brief discussion of wind measurement instrumentation. This is followed by a discussion of the previous record-holder location at Mt. Washington Observatory in the US. Then the author discusses the new recordholder, a small island off the northwest coast of Australia. The chapter concludes with a short interlude that includes a strange story by a nineteenth-century scientist about a book chapter on wind, a short discussion of the term +, and the story of how wind played a pivotal role in a historical battle.
