Australian Climate
Southern Hemisphere
Climate
Australia is a hot dry country. The middle of it is desert. Most people live around the edges of the country where it is less dry. However, drought and crop failure are still an issue even on the edges.
Australian climate map
Drought in Australia
Southern Hemisphere
The Southern Hemisphere is the bottom half of the earth. It is indicated on a world map by a line called "the Equator". Everything below that line is called the "Southern Hemisphere", everything above it is the "Northern Hemisphere".
Countries in the Southern Hemisphere:
Australia
New Zealand
Much of Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
Samoa
Vanuata
Fiji
Tonga
French Polynesia
Antartica (the South Pole)
Peru
Chile
Argentina & Falkland Islands
Bolivia
Paraguay
Uraguay
Rwanda
Tanzania
Angola
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Nambia
Botswana
Swaziland
Lesotho
South Africa
Madagascar
Mauritius
Seychelles Islands
and many more small islands and island nations
