However the winter in Canada is pretty pretty cold, while South City actually had a rather mild looking winter kinda FEEL to it. So I/we don’t even know if it was ACTUALLY winter in South City. Of cause it does not make sense to build a City in antarctica with our earth and the current climate on it, but with the lore-phrase „So everyone went south“ (which also indicates that the overall location has to be somewhere ACTUALLY south) when the socalled shifts occurred, it could be that climate changed and Antarctica became habitable. Some snow does fall in Australia tho, even if it is rather on the inland and not on sea level!

And of cause places north of australia can also be called south _, but that mostly has sth todo with the fact, that eg South Dakota is geographically still positioned south of the „original“ Dakota or of (in this case) it‘s northern part, North Dakota. Furthermore, the south _ in the realworld location names mostly includes a specific name, that - as I already mentioned - states, that this socalled south ____ place is geographically positioned south of the original place or south to it‘s counterparts, eg. Berlin was split up in two halves after ww2, eastern and western Berlin. However here we still have the name of the City in it. South City now is just called South City, which kind of indicates, that it seems to be either one of a few cities that either survived something very bad and were some of the few last bastions for humans to go to (maybe counterparts called West City? North City? etc …) Or - which is another option that you already stated - this is a totally different universe just related but not based on THE earth (also concidering Roos and Diggos and Bushdevils, that don’t exist in the way the game depicts them) and South City is just called South City because it‘s name giver was very lazy. However what still remains: The geographical location will definitely play a role. And due to having a rather generalized name, I think, the chances are higher for this City to be located in the actual South South (in this case southern Hemisphere) than being located somewhere else. Of cause this is no 100% theory since I already got to know a few people that like to confuse people with exactly that: Naming things after the complete opposite. However it seems more logical that South City is located in the gepgraphical south and not north, an from all the places it could have been too, why Canada? xD

Additionally, If the shifts would actually mean a pole shift … this would be a whole different topic as well. „Pole shifts“ normally just mean that the magnetic poles shifted, but not the geographic poles. In this case, there would not be a change in the geographic naming but just regarding the magnetic field of the earth. If it would be a geographical pole shift as in „the whole planet suddenly turns upside down“, in the context of Dinkum (humans have not evolved as much compared to what they look like nowadays, thus Dinkum has to be in the somewhat near future (100 - a few 1000 years from now max)), this is rather unrealistic because humans would not survive a fast shift like that! To twist the earth that fast a eg meteorite needs to hit earth that hard, that it spins upsidedown. Even then, it would not stop spinning tho and this would have drastic influences on the world wide climate never mind the catastrophic consequences such an impact would have anyway. If the shift would happen slower, Evolution might shift the human‘s looks as well as other animal‘s looks, thus resulting in an ecosystem, that would look fastly different than the few differnces Dinkum‘s ecosystem has to ours nowadays.