austral
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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
The days began to run together under the perpetual Sun of austral summer.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2024
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
Though we were south of the Antarctic Circle, it was mid-January, late in the austral summer, and we were lucky to have found this several-miles-wide expanse of shore-fastened ice.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2022
On the whole, the upper austral province may be said to have a warm temperate climate, in which the summer season is longer and more pronounced in its characteristics 197 than the winter season.
From North America by Israel C. (Cook) Russell
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
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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
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
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