Southern Cross
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌsʌðə(ɹ)n ˈkɹɒs/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Proper noun
- (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
- The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.
- A place in Australia:
- A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
- A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
- A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.
Translations
constellation
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