The Southern Hemisphere is rarely south of the equator.
 By comparison, the South Pole, due to its lower elevation, is, on average, 5 to 10 C (9 to 18 F) warmer than Vostok, and the lowest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole is 82
== Demographics and human geography ==More than 850 million people live in the Southern Hemisphere, representing around 1012% of the total global human population

