Facts about the Southern Hemisphere - Food and Travel

Facts about the Southern Hemisphere

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The word hemi/sphere in Greek means literally 'half ball'.
It contains all of Antarctica and Australia, and most parts of South America, most of Oceania, and the southern half of Africa.
Four oceans (South Atlantic, Indian, South Pacific, and Southern) are in the Southern Hemisphere.
Summer is December to March and winter is June to September. September 22 or 23 is the vernal equinox and March 20 or 21 is the autumnal equinox.
Climates in the Southern Hemisphere tend to be slightly milder overall than those in the Northern Hemisphere at similar latitudes except in the Antarctic which is colder than the Arctic.
It is also significantly less polluted than the Northern Hemisphere because of lower overall population densities (10-12 percent of the human population), lower levels of industrialisation, and smaller land masses.
The majority of the hemisphere's population speak one of just five languages Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, or Indonesian.
Cyclones and tropical storms spin clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere (as opposed to anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere) due to the Coriolis effect.
The earth's tilt combined with clearer skies, makes for excellent viewing of the night sky from the Southern Hemisphere with brighter and more numerous stars.

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