Southern Hemisphere Geography Wordplay Quiz

Answer: Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya, in eastern Africa. The equator runs through the middle of the country, but Nairobi is about 100 Kilometres south of that line.

Answer: Peru

Peru JUST qualifies for this quiz, with the equator a mere 4kms from the northern tip of the country. If you visit this very diverse country, you could visit Lake Titicaca, the highest lake in the world, or the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu.

Answer: Papua New Guinea

PNG is on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, with the other half comprising the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua. The country has the highest concentration of languages in the world, with in excess of 800 different tongues!

Anu is the Sumerian Sky God.

Answer: Limpopo river

Rudyard Kipling wrote a book of charming short stories in 1902, called 'Just So Stories'. The story called 'The Elephant's Child', tells of how the elephant got its long nose- it was stretched by a crocodile in the '...great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River.'

The Limpopo borders, or passes through Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

Answer: Arafura Sea

"...should weAR A FUR AS EAch..."

The Arafura Sea is between Australia, Papua New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia.

Answer: Buenos Aires

The Spanish first discovered the area in 1516 but it was not settled until 1580. It is the largest city, and capital of Argentina.

Answer: American Samoa

The territory is just to the east of the International Date Line, and therefore is one of the last places on Earth to celebrate the New Year. American Samoa was part of Samoa, however, because of an attack by German naval forces, they parted company in 1899.

Answer: Wellington

'WELL' in 'GT ON' equals Wellington. The capital of New Zealand, it has the distinction of being the world's southernmost capital. It is located at the southern end of the South Island, and is the second largest city on that island. Auckland is at the northern end and has a much larger population.

Answer: South Pole

The South Pole is as far from the Equator as you can get. As the crow flies, or perhaps the albatross, it is 10,000 kilometres away. There is a scientific research base there, which endures some ridiculously low temperatures- in winter, the thermometer can plummet to -80C (over -100F).

Answer: new south wales

New South Wales was the first state of Australia, and was founded in 1788, with the arrival of the First Fleet. It initially covered all land up to the Western Australian border, but was gradually split to form Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory.