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austral

[aw-struhl] / ˈɔ strəl /
ADJECTIVE
southern
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The glacier temporarily stabilized during the 2022 austral winter.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

Only about 60% of the people working in the USAP—a community that swells to 1200 in the austral summer—report to Leidos or one of its subcontractors.

From Science Magazine Apr. 5, 2023

By March the brief austral summer was already drawing to a close.

From Scientific American Mar. 14, 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

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 Russell, Israel C. (Cook)

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

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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