South Temperate Zone

American  

noun

1. the part of the earth's surface between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle.

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South Temperate Zone Scientific  

1. See Temperate Zone

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Example Sentences

Today Antarctica is impassable to higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, in the South Temperate Zone itself, the two regions of South Africa and South America are unlike in their mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, mollusks, insects.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

It is in this final phase that the Bread-and-Beef culture passes over eventually into the New World, and into the South Temperate Zone.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

Wellington is the capital of New Zealand; it is likewise the windy port of the Pacific, for it is in the eye of the "roaring forties," the strong west wind of the South Temperate Zone.

From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Gilson, Jewett Castello

But with the whole tropical region intervening it was to be expected that in the South Temperate Zone many things would be different, and such expectation was amply fulfilled.

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis