The northern and southern temperate zones have a flora distinct from that of the continent generally, which is tropical.

The main structural lines of the continent show both the east-to-west direction characteristic, at least in the eastern hemisphere, of the more northern parts of the world, and the north-to-south direction seen in the southern peninsulas.

Several paleontologists suggest the possibility of two separate brown bear migrations: grizzlies are thought to stem from narrow-skulled bears which migrated from northern Siberia to central Alaska and the rest of the continent, while Kodiak bears descend from broad-skulled bears from Kamchatka, which colonized the Alaskan peninsula.

The first systematic population on the European continent was taken in 1719 in Prussia ( roughly corresponding to today's northern Germany and western Poland ).

The northern part of the continent, covering much of Siberia was also inaccessible to the steppe nomads due to the dense forests and the tundra.

Pangaea gradually split into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, Gondwana.

The oldest metatherian fossils ( Metatheria being a larger clade that groups marsupials with some of their extinct relatives ) are found in present-day China. About 100 mya, the supercontinent Pangaea was in the process of splitting into the northern continent Laurasia and the southern continent Gondwana, with what would become China and Australia already separated by the Tethys Ocean.

When it became apparent that there was no route through the heart of the continent, attention turned to the possibility of a passage through northern waters.

The Sahara desert ecoregion, as defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ), includes the hyper-arid center of the Sahara, between 18 ° and 30 ° N. It is one of several desert and xeric shrubland ecoregions that cover the northern portion of the African continent.

St Helena was much less frequently visited by Asia-bound ships, the northern trade winds taking ships towards the South American continent rather than the island.

Many other elements of Japanese culture also may date from this period and reflect a mingled migration from the northern Asian continent and the southern Pacific areas.

The islands are separated from the continent of South America by the Gulf of Paria ; Dragon's Mouth, a-wide northern passage ; and Serpent's Mouth, a-wide southern passage.

Five vast tradition-oriented civilizations occupy a large portion of the northern continent.

Much of the gaming materials and other writings focus particularly on these Five Empires which control much of the world's northern continent ( only about an eighth of the planet's surface has published maps ).

He was opposed to King William's power on the continent, thus the Battle of Cassel not only lost the king an important supporter, but also upset the continental balance of power in northern France.

The Canadian Shield bioregion extends across the northern portion of the continent, from the Aleutian Islands to Newfoundland.

Some oceanic dolphins, such as the Orca, can be found in all waters around the continent ; others, such as the Irrawaddy Dolphin, are confined to the warm northern waters.

In the Western world, belief in a Cold Land — a vast continent located in the far south of the globe to " balance " out the northern lands of Europe, Asia and North Africa — had existed for centuries.

The history of North America is the study of the past, particularly the written record, oral histories, and traditions, passed down from generation to generation on the continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and ( chiefly ) western hemisphere.

The first few wars were fought for supremacy in the northern and southern parts of the continent.

The majority of the area of the " northern civilized cities ", as the Vosk river region in the temperate north of the continent is referred to, is reminiscent of ancient Greco-Roman city-states in many respects ( aside from the delta city of Port Kar, which is a more anarchic and piratical version of Venice ).

It underlies 23 % of the continent, including most of Queensland, the south-east corner of the Northern Territory, the north-east part of South Australia, and northern New South Wales.

Genertela is the northern continent of Greg Stafford's fictional world Glorantha.

* The Rockwood Mountains and their western extension, the Nidan Mountains, divide western and central Genertela into a northern and a southern half.

Tri-State has acquired its exclusive distribution for the northern, principal heating states.

`` Washington '', President Kennedy has been heard to remark ironically, `` is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm ''.

In the wood frog ( Rana sylvatica ), the interior of the globular egg cluster has been found to be up to 6 ° C ( 11 ° F ) warmer than its surroundings which is an advantage in its cool northern habitat.

C. crocodilus, the Spectacled Caiman, has the widest distribution, from southern Mexico to the northern half of Argentina, and grows to a modest size of about 2. 2 meters.

Often dismissed as an unreliable tradition, it has been studied with attention by modern scholars, in particular Neil Christie, who see in it a possible record of a formal invitation by the Byzantine state to settle in northern Italy as foederati, to help protect the region against the Franks, an arrangement that may have been disowned by Justin II after Narses ' removal.

The ACT also has a small strip of territory around the southern end of the Beecroft Peninsula, which is the northern headland of Jervis Bay.

The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

This street pattern has been preserved through Jerusalem's later history ; the western cardo is Suq Khan ez-Zeit ( Olive-oil Inn Market ), the southern decumanus is both the Street of the Chain and Suq el-Bazaar ( Bazaar Market ; called David Street by Israelis ), the eastern cardo is Al-wad Road ( Valley road ), and the northern decumanus is now the Via Dolorosa.

However, the disease found in northern Europe ( including the UK ) in 2006 and 2007 has been caused by serotype 8.

The population in the northern Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West Province has declined by up to 1 %.

In the northern latitudes, the informal term equatorial constellation has sometimes used for constellations that lie to the south of the circumpolar constellations.

The southern third of the country has a two-month dry season ; the northern two-thirds, a four-month one.

Since 1974, the internationally recognised Republic of Cyprus has controlled the south two thirds, and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus the northern one-third.

Cyprus has been divided, de facto, into the Greek Cypriot controlled southern two-thirds of the island and the Turkish-occupied northern third.

New Zealand white rabbits have +/- myoglobin in of wet muscle, whereas a northern bottlenose whale has.

The southern portion of the state has a somewhat milder climate and a longer growing season than the northern portion of the state.

The Dalai Lama has since lived in exile in Dharamshala, in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India, where the Central Tibetan Administration is also established.

Found in a Hattic royal tomb dated about 2500 BC, at Alaca Höyük in northern Anatolia, the dagger has a smelted iron blade and a bronze handle.

The Cerron Grande Dam on the Rio Lempa has created a large reservoir, the Embalse Cerron Grande, in northern El Salvador.

The position of emperor is a territory-independent phenomenon — the emperor is the emperor, even if he has followers only in one province ( as was the case sometimes with the southern and northern courts ).

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

While the use of linen has been shown in archaeological evidence, the use of cotton-and cotton-based canvas-is disputed since the access to large amounts of cotton cloth was not widely available in northern Europe at this time.

* G. c. antiquorum, the Kordofan giraffe, has a distribution which includes southern Chad, the Central African Republic, northern Cameroon and north-eastern DR Congo.

* Latin'll ' has become-dd-( like casteddu, beddu ' castle ', ' beautiful '), the same as in Sardinian, southern Corsican and Sicilian ( but castellu, bellu in northern Corsican );