Word: zone
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...plant and animal life spread across Antarctica and the chains of islands that fringe it. Today Antarctica is impassable to higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone. Plants and insects capable of crossing moderate water gaps could have used Antarctica as a bridge between New Zealand and Australia on one side and South America on the other. Some of the flora and fauna may even have evolved in pleasant Antarctic valleys that are now covered...
Some plants common to both sides of the South Temperate Zone are apparently incapable of crossing even modest water gaps, but if they were in existence 150 million years ago, they probably did not need to. Holdgate points out that in those days, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and South America were probably jammed close together. The primitive plants that grew on outlying parts of this great ancient land had only to last out the seasons while the continents drifted northward and moved them and their home thousands of miles apart...
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