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Australis (adjective) (not comparable)
A reference to "Aurora Australis": The Australis lights, also known as the Southern Lights, presented magical effects and moments in the night when Rose and Raymond looked up into the sky.
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Aurora Australis, aurora australis (s) (noun) (no pl)
Dawn of the southern wind; the southern lights: On television, Jackie enjoyed watching the aurora australis, or the luminous phenomena in the sky, which takes place around the South Pole.

The aurora australis is a pattern of differently colored lights that are sometimes seen in the night sky in the most southern parts of the world or the Southern Hemisphere.

Terra Australis (proper noun)
An imaginaty or supposed continent that showed up on European maps between the 15th and 18th century: Terra Australisis is also known as, Terra Australis Incognita, Latin for "the unknown land of the South".

It was introduced by Aristotle. Aristotle's ideas were later expanded by Ptolemy, a Greek cartographer from the first century A.D., who believed that the Indian Ocean was enclosed on the south by land.

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aurora australis
"Southern lights" or colored lights in the night sky near the earth's magnetic pole in the southern hemisphere.
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