"southwardly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller:",
          "text": "As we proceeded southwardly, the temperature grew milder, and the day closed with a calm and pleasant sunset.",
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          "ref": "1916, H. G. Wells, What is Coming?:",
          "text": "The Scandinavian peoples have developed a tendency to an extra-European outlook, to look west and east rather than southwardly, to be pacifist and progressive in a manner essentially American.",
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          "ref": "2000 June 16, John G. Lyon, “The Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 1987–1991:",
          "text": "Dungey (7 ) first sketched the consequences for an interplanetary (solar wind) magnetic field (IMF) that was oppositely directed (southwardly) from the generally northward terrestrial field.",
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        "southwards, towards the south"
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