Southern Cross (disambiguation) explained

The Southern Cross or Crux is a star group visible mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. It has been known by this English term since the late 18th century.

Southern Cross may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

• "Southern Cross" (folk song), a Newfoundland folk ballad
• "Southern Cross" (Crosby, Stills and Nash song) (1982)
• "Southern Cross", a 1993 song by 808 State from Gorgeous
• "Southern Cross", a 1975 song by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from The Car Over the Lake Album
• "Visions (Southern Cross)", a song by Stratovarius from Visions
• "Southern Cross", a song by Jason Webley from Counterpoint
• “The Sign of the Southern Cross”, a song by Black Sabbath from the album Mob Rules

Newspapers

• The Southern Cross (Argentina), an Argentine newspaper
• The Southern Cross (South Africa), a South African national Catholic weekly newspaper
• The Southern Cross (South Australia), a Catholic newspaper

Television

• Seven Regional, formerly Southern Cross Television, an Australian television network
• 10 Regional, formerly Southern Cross Ten, an Australian television channel
• "Southern Cross", an episode of Robotech

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Southern Cross (novel), a 1998 novel by Patricia Cornwell
• Southern Cross (wordless novel), a 1951 wordless novel by Laurence Hyde
• Gryphus 1 or the Southern Cross, a character in
• The Southern Cross, a fictional organization in Inferno Cop

Businesses and organisations

Businesses

• Southern Cross Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Australia
• Southern Cross Austereo, an Australian media company
• Southern Cross Healthcare (United Kingdom), a former operator of rest and care homes
• Southern Cross Healthcare Group (New Zealand), a health insurance and hospital operator
• Southern Cross Telco, a telecommunications company in Australia

Education

• Southern Cross Campus, a composite school in Auckland, New Zealand
• Southern Cross College, a former name of Alphacrucis, a Christian college in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia
• Southern Cross University, in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
• Southern Cross School, a K-12 school in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia

Heraldry

• Order of the Southern Cross, a Brazilian order of knighthood
• Eureka Flag or Southern Cross
• Southern Cross or Confederate flag, a flag of the Confederate States of America

Places

• Southern Cross, Queensland, a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Australia
• Southern Cross, Victoria, a locality in Victoria, Australia
• Southern Cross, Western Australia, a town in Western Australia

Transportation

Ships

• MS Southern Cross, a cruise ship
• Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship series)
• Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship)
• Southern Cross (yacht), a yacht that challenged for the 1974 America's Cup
• SS Southern Cross, a list of steamships
• Southern Cross, steam yacht ex-Rover in the 1930s, when owned by Howard Hughes

Other transportation

• Southern Cross (automobile), an Australian automobile manufactured from 1931 to 1935
• Southern Cross (aircraft), the Fokker F.VIIB/3m flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
• Southern Cross railway station, Melbourne, Australia
• Southern Cross railway station, Western Australia
• Southern Cross Route, a flight route between Australasia and Europe through the Americas

Other uses

• Southern Cross Cable, a submarine communications cable
• Southern Cross Group, an Australian conservation organisation
• Xanthosia rotundifolia, a plant species of Southwest Australia

See also

• Berlin Südkreuz ('South Cross Berlin')
• Exercise Croix du Sud, a military exercise in New Caledonia
• Flags depicting the Southern Cross
• Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
• Southern Cross of Honor
• Southern Cross 28, an American yacht design
• Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, a 1984 anime series from Japan brought to the US as part of Robotech
• Southern Cross Expedition 1898–1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink
• Southern Cross News, the name of several news broadcasts