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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
southern hemisphere
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alerce is one of the longest lived trees in the southern hemisphere with some specimens believed to be over 4000 years old.
▪ Even when it is near the zenith, as it can of course be from the southern hemisphere, it still twinkles quite noticeably.
▪ Had explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would maps appear upside down?
▪ In the southern hemisphere, however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
▪ Pigeons used to the northern hemisphere but moved to the southern hemisphere likewise orient with the predicted 180° error at noon.
▪ There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide, all confined to the southern hemisphere.
▪ Those that evolved in the southern hemisphere, the marsupials, start to do this when their babies are very young indeed.
WordNet
southern hemisphere

n. the hemisphere south of the equator

Wikipedia
Southern Hemisphere

The Southern Hemisphere is the half sphere of Earth which is south of the equator. It contains all or parts of five continents ( Antarctica, Australia, about 90% of South America, the southern third of Africa, and several southern islands off the continental mainland of Asia), four oceans ( Indian, South Atlantic, Southern, and South Pacific) and most of the Pacific Islands in Oceania. Due to the tilt of Earth's rotation relative to the Sun and the ecliptic plane, summer is from December to March and winter is from June to September. September 22 or 23 is the vernal equinox and March 20 or 21 is the autumnal equinox.

Usage examples of "southern hemisphere".

On the contrary, the engineer inclined it towards the south, that is to say, in the direction of the coast opposite to the sun, for it must not be forgotten that the settlers in Lincoln Island, as the island was situated in the Southern Hemisphere, saw the radiant planet describe its diurnal arc above the northern, and not above the southern horizon.

On the contrary, the engineer inclined it toward the south, that is to say, in the direction of the coast opposite to the sun, for it must not be forgotten that the settlers in Lincoln Island, as the island was situated in the Southern Hemisphere, saw the radiant planet describe its diurnal arc above the northern, and not above the southern horizon.

She had driven all over the southern hemisphere in the previous year, taking no precautions except when approaching one of Coyote's hidden refuges to resupply.

Less damage had been done in the southern hemisphere than in the northern.

As my eyes fell upon the southern hemisphere of a world map drawn by Oronteus Finaeus in 1531, I had the instant conviction that I had found here a truly authentic map of the real Antarctica.

Let's try bare fists, Paul said, and he landed a right cross on the southern hemisphere and there was Argyre.

That's why we're thinking that, if you don't want to enter into an agreement with us, we may just have to build another city and track system on Mercury, down in the southern hemisphere, and cruise in the terminator down there.

The next day they ventured as far as the ice cap in the southern hemisphere, taking samples of the frozen crust and as many layers of soil as the deep corer could manage to reach.