Meanings of austral in English

The polar vortex, a river of air that circles Antarctica in the austral winter, is essential.

It was their third attempt over three seasons, all in 2012, including an austral winter attempt in August.

And more than this again; the temperature had fallen sensibly: this was probably a forewarning of the austral winter.

The president introduced an austerity programme, named after the new currency - the austral - with which he replaced the peso.

These singular objects form as striking a peculiarity of the austral heavens as does the great ''Coal-sack'' described in Chapter 1.

We should have to seek land of the austral zone under higher latitudes without being sure of ever coming across it!

His face was as livid as that of the corpse that had drifted down from the far latitudes of the austral zone.

All the navigators of the austral seas have been able to ascertain, as I myself have done, the permanence of this wind.

No such currents could possibly come from rivers in an austral land, locked up in ever-during frost, should any such land exist.E.

But on this morning in the early austral spring, as dawn breaks over the shore of Lago General Carrera, the water is calm.

Technically, any place in the Southern Hemisphere could qualify as antipodean to the Northern Hemisphere, much like "austral" means anywhere south.

We suggest that the first thermocline warming corresponds to heat transport of southern Pacific shallow overturning circulation driven by June (austral winter) insolation maximum.

Mr Bhama is building a Thrive home at Austral in Sydney's south west.

Embraer and Austral did not respond to questions about the contracts.

Most isolated of all are the Austral Islands, to Tahiti's south.

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