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THE first total eclipse of the sun after the conclusion of the recent World War will take place on May 20 next. The belt of totality passes from Santiago in Chile, where the sun will rise in eclipse, across the Argentine, with Cordoba close to the edge of the belt, Paraguay and Brazil, leaving South America at Salvador ; it then crosses the Atlantic without touching any islands, enters West Africa just south of Monrovia in Liberia, runs through the Ivory and Gold Coasts, Nigeria, the Cameroons, French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, Uganda and Kenya, passes just south of Nairobi, and leaves the East African coast just north of Mombasa, the sun setting in eclipse. The width of the track varies from about 80 miles at sunset and sunrise to about 110 miles in Brazil and West Africa.
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STRATTON, F. THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF MAY 20, 1947. Nature 159, 287–288 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159287a0
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