Far South (Pardes)
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The Far South (also referred to as the Belhavian Far South, Polar South, or Arctic South) is a geographic and ecological expression used in Belhavia by both popular culture and academic scholarship that refers to the bottom quarter of Belhavia proper. The Far South contains the coldest, harshest, and least inhabitable areas of the Empire, and goes from taiga forests and soft tundra home to some residents to barely-hospitable sub-Arctic and Arctic desert-like environments that border the Antarctic Ocean.
Ecologists, climatologists, and biogeographers note that the area consisting of the 'Far South' is on a continuum of climate zones from subarctic to tundra to non-permanent ice.
The Far South is usually barren of human habitation and settlement outside of narrow corridors of development. It includes three provinces, all among the three lowest in population and broadest in geographic landmass with low residents per-capita: the Weissland Islands (~855,000), Arkania (~990,000), and South Adrania (~451,000). The population numbers may be deceiving because official resident counts are taken in the summer months, when populations balloon in the south in resource extraction activities, the primary industry.
Gold, copper, iron ore, coal, precious metals, and other valuable minerals are plentiful in the mountainous and ice-filled Far South, and companies truck workers out there through the late spring, summer, and early fall months to perform most of the mineral extraction and mining before some mines must close because of the harsh polar winter conditions.
The city of Port Adrian is the south-most major city in Belhavia proper, and operates a year-round port and maritime activities, though the surrounding seas become dangerous and ice-filled during the deep of the winter months. Small historic fishing villages, religious communities, suburban Port Adrian towns, and company mining towns fill out the rest of the human development in the region.
The climate band found here has similar climatic effects on adjacent southern Tippercommon lands.