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austral

[aw-struhl] / ˈɔ strəl /
ADJECTIVE
southern
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Researchers later determined that the remaining ice was still grounded during the 2022 austral spring based on earthquakes detected beneath the glacier.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

And they hope to keep at it from October to mid-January, the height of the austral summer, for 3 years running.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 13, 2023

But this does mean Earth is closer to the sun in austral summer and farther in austral winter, so the corresponding plus-or-minus-five-degree-C shift can amplify seasons to be more extreme in the Southern Hemisphere.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 30, 2023

Tomine is a devotee of fishing the austral summer in South America’s Patagonia, from which he had just returned when he spoke to The Seattle Times in early April.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2022

The reading should be: “la tierra mas austral es el praso promontorio,” and the translation should be, “Ptolemy says that the most southern land is the promontory of Prasum,” etc.

From The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 by Julius E. Olson

They typically convert their currency -- pesos, cruzados or australes -- into U.S. dollars, because they are a better store of value.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the solicitation of his friend Buffon, he undertook his Histoire des navigations aux terres australes, which was published in 1756, in two vols. 4to, with maps.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The aurora borealia, or rather, the polar aurora,—for there are aurorae australes as well as aurorae boreales,—has been an object of wonder and admiration from time immemorial.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 by Various


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