Southern Cross

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Southern Cross (Crux)

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the Southern Cross

  1. (astronomy) A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
    • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 167:
      The stars had not quite faded out of the sky, and the Southern Cross was still shining faintly in the heavens; the jungle all round was very still, just as if Nature was waiting to introduce the busy hum of life till the last solemn scene was over.
    Synonym: Crux
  2. The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.

Southern Cross

  1. A place in Australia:
    1. A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
    2. A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
    3. A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.

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