Southern Hemisphere
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- noun
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- Summer starts in Mars's southern hemisphere in mid-August, so the south polar cap will wane rapidly.
- Southern Hemisphere countries
- Southern Hemisphere summer
So the Northern hemisphere, it's counter, it's clockwise in the in the Southern hemisphere, it's counterclockwise.
- So the Northern hemisphere, it's counter, it's clockwise in the in the Southern hemisphere, it's counterclockwise.
- Being very close to Antarctica in the Southern Hemisphere in the winter, very low sunlight exposure.
- And so the current focus are the pygmy blue whales, so these smaller, chubbier Southern hemisphere animals.
Examples
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May I present Nathan Abasi, one of the toughest negotiators in the Southern Hemisphere.
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The Southern Cross is arguably the most well-known astronomical landmark in the Southern Hemisphere and is featured on the Australian flag.
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If we have summer going into winter from June to December, right, And the Southern Hemisphere is opposite.
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Seven cases occurred during the Southern Hemisphere summer.
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Scanning the entire Southern Hemisphere.
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The telescope, to be located in the Southern Hemisphere, was to be constructed with funding from the Ford Foundation.
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There are many more spectacular objects awaiting you in the Southern Hemisphere.
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In the temperate waters of the Southern Hemisphere, we diverge from this approach.
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TWN conducts research on economic, social, and environmental issues and how they affect countries in the southern hemisphere.
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The Southern Hemisphere experiences summer during the months of December to February.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the half of the Earth south of the equator' is directly and transparently derived from the adjective 'southern' (from the south) modifying 'hemisphere' (a half of the Earth). This is a regular adjective+noun geographic compound that is cross-linguistically common and therefore readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Southern Hemisphere comes from a simple picture: imagine a line around the middle of the Earth called the equator that splits the planet into top and bottom halves, and the lower half is the southern hemisphere. So the name means the 'half of the Earth that lies south of the equator'.