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Southern cross
//ˌsʌðə(ɹ)n ˈkɹɒs// name
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Proper Noun
- 1 A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
"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."
- 2 A place in Australia:; A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
- 3 The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.
- 4 A place in Australia:; A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
- 5 A place in Australia:; A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.
See also for "southern cross"
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