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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

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

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

The sun enters the cardinal and tropical sign Capricorn on the 22nd, attaining his greatest austral declination at 1h. 31m. afternoon.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 by Various

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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