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Southern Tasmania

Southern Tasmania (FEOW ecoregion 810) is Australia's smallest freshwater ecoregion, 36,000 sq km of highland-draining rivers and glacial lakes, with seven endemic Galaxiidae fish species and 39 estuaries in the southern NRM region.

Southern Television broadcast interruption

The Southern Television broadcast interruption: on 26 November 1977 a voice calling itself Vrillon of the Ashtar Galactic Command overrode ITV news audio in southern England; unsolved transmitter hijack, IBA-called hoax.

Southern Temperate Highveld

Southern Temperate Highveld: FEOW freshwater ecoregion 575 on the South African highveld plateau (900–1,900 m), Temperate upland rivers type, covering Vaal and Orange headwaters, with mixed tropical-temperate fish fauna and endangered conservation status.

Southern Tomb 11, Amarna

Southern Tomb 11 at Amarna is a small unfinished rock-cut elite tomb made for the official Ramose during Akhenaten's reign, preserving entrance scenes of the royal family.

Southern Tomb 23, Amarna

Southern Tomb 23 at Amarna in Middle Egypt is a rock-cut tomb built for the official Any during Akhenaten's reign, the only Amarna tomb with a portico.

Southern Transitional Council (المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي)

Southern Transitional Council (المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي), UAE-backed Yemeni separatist group founded 11 May 2017 by Aidarous al-Zubaidi in Aden, sought to restore independent South Yemen (1967–1990 borders); held PLC seats, seized the south in December 2025, and announced its dissolution in January 2026.

Southern Unionist

Southern Unionists were white Southerners who opposed secession and stayed loyal to the United States during the Civil War, concentrated in East Tennessee, western North Carolina, and northern Alabama, supplying up to 100,000 Union soldiers while facing persecution inside the Confederacy.

Southern united

Southern United is the name shared by several association football clubs, most prominently Southern United FC, a New Zealand club founded in 2004 and based in Dunedin, plus Australian clubs in New South Wales.

Southern United States

The Southern United States (the South) is a U.S. census region of South Atlantic, East South Central, and West South Central divisions, also defined culturally by the eleven Confederate states, plantation slavery, Reconstruction, and Sun Belt urbanization.

Southern University

Southern University is a historically black university system in Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge and created in 1974, whose flagship, Southern University and A&M College, was chartered in 1880.

Southern Upper Guinea

Southern Upper Guinea (FEOW ecoregion 512) is a West African freshwater ecoregion covering nearly all of Liberia, southern Guinea, and western Côte d'Ivoire, defined by the short Mano, Lofa, St. Paul, St. John, Cestos, and Cavally river basins with about one-fifth of 151 fish species endemic.

Southern Utah University

Southern Utah University, known as SUU, is a public university in Cedar City, Utah, founded in 1897 as the Branch Normal School with over 150 academic programs.

Southern Victory

Southern Victory (Timeline-191) is Harry Turtledove's 11-book alternate history series, 1997 to 2007, in which the Confederacy wins the Civil War from an 1862 Special Order 191 divergence and the rival American nations fight through 1945.

Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory

The Southern Wide-field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) is a planned ground-based gamma-ray observatory at 4,770 meters in Chile's Atacama Astronomical Park, with construction expected from 2026.

Southern Xiongnu (Huhanye's polity)

The Southern Xiongnu (呼韩邪单于政权) was a Xiongnu state founded by Huhanye Chanyu after the confederacy split, which submitted to Han China and received grain, cavalry protection, and Wang Zhaojun in marriage in 33 BC.

Southern Xiongnu submission to Han

The Southern Xiongnu submission to Han (南匈奴内附) was the 48 CE offer of vassalage by the Xiongnu prince Bi and eight southern tribes to Eastern Han.

Southern Yan

Southern Yan (南燕) was a Xianbei Murong state of the Sixteen Kingdoms, founded by Murong De in Shandong, centered on Guanggu in Qingzhou and later destroyed by Liu Yu of Jin.

Southernmost settlements

The southernmost settlements on Earth are Puerto Toro, Chile, a hamlet of 36 people and the southernmost permanent settlement; Puerto Williams, the southernmost city; and Ushuaia, Argentina, the largest southern city.

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik is OutKast's debut album, released April 26, 1994 on LaFace Records. Produced entirely by Organized Noize, it reached number 20 on the Billboard 200, went platinum within a year, and helped Southern rap gain mainstream acceptance.

Southfield, Michigan

Southfield, Michigan is an inner-ring Detroit suburb in Oakland County, incorporated April 28, 1958, with about 76,000 residents, over 27 million square feet of office space, and 774 acres of park land.

Southlake, Texas

Southlake, Texas: affluent Tarrant County suburb northwest of Fort Worth-Dallas, incorporated 1956 near Lake Grapevine, population 31,265 (2020), served by Carroll ISD, median home value about $1 million.

Southland (TV series)

Southland is an American LAPD crime drama created by Ann Biderman, aired on NBC in 2009 and on TNT 2010-2013 across five seasons and 43 episodes, known for hand-held documentary realism and two stunt-coordination Emmys.

Southland Conference

The Southland Conference is a 12-member NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1963 in Dallas, based in Frisco, Texas, competing in FCS football and hosting the FCS championship game.

Southland Tales

Southland Tales (2006) is Richard Kelly's dystopian sci-fi comedy-drama, follow-up to Donnie Darko, starring Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Seann William Scott; booed at Cannes, it earned $273.4K and 41% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Southpaw (film)

Southpaw (2015) is an American boxing drama directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by Kurt Sutter, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as champion Billy Hope, with Rachel McAdams and Forest Whitaker; originally developed for Eminem, released by The Weinstein Company, grossing $52.4M in the US.

Southpaw stance

Southpaw stance: right hand and foot forward, left rear power hand, mirror of orthodox. Also the disputed baseball-vs-boxing etymology, prevalence (25% elite boxers, 17.4% MMA), contested advantage, and Hagler, Whitaker, Pacquiao.

Southport

Southport is a seaside resort in Sefton, Merseyside, England, founded in 1792 by William Sutton. Known for Lord Street, the 1860 Southport Pier (Britain's second longest, closed since 2022), Victorian parks, and the Sefton Coast dunes.

Southport F.C.

Southport F.C., the Sandgrounders, an English club founded 1888 as Southport Central, Football League member 1921–1978, Fourth Division champions 1972/73, last club voted out of the League in 1978, now in National League North at Haig Avenue.

Southside (record producer)

Southside (Joshua Howard Luellen, born 1989, Atlanta) is a trap record producer and rapper, co-founder of 808 Mafia, known for Future's DS2 and 56 Nights, "Fuck Up Some Commas," and G Herbo's Swervo.

Southside with You

Southside with You is Richard Tanne's 2016 romantic drama, also called Southside With You, dramatizing Barack and Michelle Obama's 1989 first date across Chicago's South Side, starring Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, a Sundance 2016 premiere that grossed $6.3 million.