Little squirt's a union organiser in the banana belt, up around Bocas, where we were.

Mitch: We're in a bit of a banana belt up here.

With its location in the "banana belt", Pueblo tends to get less snow than the other major cities in Colorado.

The banana belt along the Wisconsin border has a more continental climate since most of its weather does not arrive from the lakes.

But the new courses are being built in the "banana belts" - the valley areas that are often 1,500 feet lower than the ski towns.

There are now about 30 yachts each year visiting the Antarctic Peninsula, which is in the warmer "banana belt."

Antarctica was throbbing with life here on the banana belt.

Scientists who have worked on the high plateau forgivably take a cavalier view of coastal and maritime Antarctica, writing it off as 'that banana belt up north'.

A banana belt is any segment of a larger geographic region that enjoys warmer weather conditions than the region as a whole, especially in the wintertime.

North American examples of "banana belts" include: