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The direction that's down on maps purely because Europe decided which way was up.
means The cardinal direction opposite north, toward the bottom of a conventionally oriented map and, in the Northern Hemisphere, toward the warmer latitudes.
from From Old English 'suth,' tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root (think Old Saxon and Old High German cousins). The deeper sense may be 'the sunward side' — possibly linked to the same ancient root as 'sun' — because for people living in the Northern Hemisphere, that's where the sun rides highest across the sky. The direction was literally named for where the daylight pooled.
- magnetic lie
- Compass needles point at the Arctic, a magnetic south pole
- colder bottom
- South means warmer up north, freezing in Antarctica
- map bias
- Ancient Arab maps placed south on top
- swirl shift
- Storms spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere
- language drift
- To go south now means everything falling apart
south korea — country in east asia, population 51 million, capital seoul
american south — region of united states, 17 states, historically defined by confederacy 1861-1865
south africa — country at southern tip of africa, apartheid ended 1994, mandela first president
magnetic south pole — earth's southern magnetic point, currently near canadian arctic, shifts annually