SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southern hemisphere mean? 

• SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (noun)
  The noun SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE has 1 sense:

1. the hemisphere to the south of the equator

  Familiarity information: SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The hemisphere to the south of the equator

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

hemisphere (half of the terrestrial globe)

Meronyms (parts of "southern hemisphere"):

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)

Gondwanaland (a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into India and Australia and Africa and South America and Antarctica)

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

Just one large lake has been found in the southern hemisphere.

(Cassini Explores a Methane Sea on Titan, NASA)

Winter is taking a grip on Titan's southern hemisphere, and a strong, whirling atmospheric circulation pattern — a vortex — has developed in the upper atmosphere over the south pole.

(Cassini Sees Dramatic Seasonal Changes on Titan, NASA)

Martian dust storms are common, especially during southern hemisphere spring and summer, when the planet is closest to the Sun.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

Previously, Cassini data measured Ontario Lacus, the only major lake in Titan's southern hemisphere.

(Cassini Reveals Surprises with Titan's Lakes, NASA)

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency's Mars Express found an ultraviolet glow coming from "magnetic umbrellas" in the southern hemisphere.

(Auroras on Mars, NASA)

These anomalies are concentrated in the southern hemisphere, where aurorae are predicted to occur.

(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)

When Cassini arrived at the Saturnian system in 2004, the southern hemisphere was enjoying summertime, while the northern was in the midst of winter.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

The first event originated in the southern hemisphere, and the second and third events occurred near the equator.

(NASA's OSIRIS-REx Explains Bennu Mystery Particles, NASA)

It can be seen in the constellation Centaurus (the Centaur), which can be seen primarily in the southern hemisphere.

(Hubble Views Final Stages of a Star’s Life, ESA/NASA)

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant oval of crimson-colored clouds in Jupiter's southern hemisphere that race counterclockwise around the oval's perimeter with wind speeds greater than any storm on Earth.

(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)