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ZONES AND REGIONS [Pt. Ill, Sect. II 



6. WARM TEMPERATE DISTRICTS WITH A MOIST 



WINTER. 



Several climatic districts of the north and south warm temperate belts 

 possess a climate similar to that of South- West Africa ; an absolutely similar 

 oecological t)'pe of vegetation corresponds to this climate. Woodland is 

 characteristic of it. 



South- IVcsl and South Australia are included in these districts. 



Warm Temperate Sclerophyllous Woodland Climate. 



SOUTH-WEST AUSTRALI.\-PERTH. 



31° 57-4' S., 115° 52° E., 14-3 meters above sea-level. 



(From Zeitschr. d. osterr. Gesellsch. f. Meteorol., 1SS2, p. 285.) 



According to five years' (1876-1880) observations at Perth the mean annual rainfall is 

 822 mm. 



At ten stations in 1S79: Fremantle 655, Albany 770, Vasse 604, Bunbury 7S5, Geraldton 

 472, Guilford 891, Newcastle 312, Northam 211, York 317, Sinjarrah 754 mm. 



There is considerable climatic and phyto-oecological analogy between 

 the South-West African districts described above and Central Chili. The 

 Karroo desert corresponds to the desert of Atacama. South of the latter, 

 precipitations become heavier and continue to increase steadily with the 

 distance from the tropic of Capricorn. Santiago has 33 cm., Talca, somewhat 

 further south, 53 cm. The rain falls chiefly in winter, summer is rainless. 



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