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Southern Hemisphere in Round the world flights
If you want to fly around the world completely in the Southern Hemisphere, the choice of flights and destinations is limited due to the lack of transoceanic routes. No airline alliance presently covers all three ocean crossings in the Southern Hemisphere (and SkyTeam covers none of the crossings).
However, if you're starting in North America, Air New Zealand (Star Alliance) has flights from Los Angeles to Tahiti (code share), the Cook Islands, Samoa/Tonga, and Auckland. Note that Star Alliance has no South Pacific crossing east of Tahiti, but is the only alliance that covers both of the other oceans. (New member TAM Brazil covers Santiago de Chile to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.) For Star Alliance members in USA/Canada, getting in and out via Samoa or Tahiti may be the best route.
Your options for each ocean crossing are:
South Pacific
Qantas: Buenos Aires - Sydney (Oneworld)
LAN: Santiago de Chile - Auckland (Some flights stop at Easter Island and Tahiti en route. Also flies to Brazil and Argentina which is needed to connect with a South Atlantic flight.) (Oneworld)
Aerolineas Argentinas: Buenos Aires - Auckland - Sydney (unaffiliated)
(Air New Zealand): (partial crossing with connecting flights) Tahiti - Auckland - Perth
Also, connects the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and other Pacific Islands with Auckland (Star Alliance)
(Air Tahiti): Tahiti - Cook Islands, Tahiti - Sydney, Tahiti - Auckland (unaffiliated although QF codeshares part of Oneworld Global Explorer)
Indian Ocean
South African Airways: Perth - Johannesburg (Star Alliance)
Qantas: Sydney - Johannesburg or (codeshare w/South African) Perth - Johannesburg (Oneworld)
Air Mauritius has flights from Australia to Mauritius, and from there to Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Nairobi and other African cities. (This is the most direct option if you want to stop in Madagascar or Kenya en route.) (unaffiliated)
You can also transit through Singapore or Malaysia to Johannesburg, but this is slightly north of the equator. (Star Alliance if via Singapore Air)
South Atlantic
Malaysia Airlines: Johannesburg - Cape Town - Buenos Aires (unaffiliated)
TAAG Air Angola: Luanda - Rio de Janeiro (unaffiliated)
South African Airways: Johannesburg - São Paulo (There are many connecting flights to Rio and Buenos Aires available.) (Star Alliance)
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