The southern temperate zone, a subsection of the Southern Hemisphere, is nearly all oceanic. This zone includes all of Uruguay, Lesotho, Swaziland, and New Zealand; most of Chile, Argentina, South Africa, and Australia; and parts of Paraguay, Brazil, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, and Madagascar.orests in the Southern Hemisphere have special features which set them aside from the Northern Hemisphere. Both Chile and Australia share, for example, unique beech species or Nothofagus with New Zealand having members of the closely related genera Lophozonia and Fuscospora.