https://rsoe-edis.org/eventList/details/139718/0
Just gone on RSOE the Hungary based disaster database.
This popped up showing a severe storm in Antarctica with wind speeds of 600 knots.
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Severe? That word would not even begin to describe it.
Speed of sound = 343 meters per second
So the contention on that site is that the wind would blow at almost MACH-1, the speed the sound.
Latitude -73.63 Longitude 160.63 That would be south of Tasmania. There is a storm right now with according to windy.com 40knots winds.
It seems someone may have forgotten to put a comma or a period in there to indicate decimals.