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

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

Our next chapters will be a series of wonder tales which reveal the South Temperate Zone and its inhabitants as they appeared to the young and susceptible Italian, Pigafetta, nearly four hundred years ago.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah

Stretching, as do these plains, across a large portion of the South Temperate Zone, they present great varieties of climate.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

Of this immense territory 53�5 per cent. lies within the Tropics, and 46�5 per cent. within the South Temperate Zone.

From Our First Half-Century: A Review of Queensland Progress Based Upon Official Information by Queensland