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I have already reported that the position of the so-called cosmic-ray latitude knee at sea-level is much lower in the south direction from Cape Town than in other regions1,2. The latitude knee found by means of a shipboard neutron monitor remained in a fixed position, 35.4° S. geomagnetic latitude, throughout the four surveys back and forth along the constant route from the Indian Ocean to the Antarctic Ocean via Cape Town during October 1956–April 1961. I attributed such anomalously low ‘knee’ effect to a cause of the small horizontal component of the geomagnetic field around Cape Town.
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KODAMA, M. Cosmic-ray Latitude Knee around Cape Town Anomaly. Nature 198, 472–474 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/198472a0
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