From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Long Forties
Long Forties
coast of Norway, centred about 57°N 0°30′E. Compare to
the Broad Fourteens.
The Shipping Forecast area "Forties" is named after
it. The Dutch weather service KNMI uses for the same
area the name of the Fladen Grounds, a slightly more
northernly and deeper part of the North Sea. The
Swedish weather service SMHI who reported weather for
this area until 2005 also used the name Fladen for this
The Long Forties is an area of the northern North Sea
area. The Norwegian forecast for the fisheries uses the
that is fairly consistently forty fathoms (73 metres) deep
term Fladen Grunn.
(thus, on a nautical chart with depth shown in fathoms,
Coordinates: 57°00′N 0°30′E / 57°N 0.5°E / 57; 0.5
a long area with many "40" notations). It is located be-
tween the northeast coast of Scotland and the southwest
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