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Southern and Cross
An IAU interpretation would recognise Crux ( the Southern Cross ) above the emu's head and Scorpius on the left.
Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross.
The two stars of Alpha and Beta Centauri are often referred to as the " Southern Pointers " or just " The Pointers ", allowing people to easily find the asterism of the Southern Cross or the constellation of Crux.
It is the dimmest of the Southern Cross stars.
The 15th century Venetian navigator Alvise Cadamosto made note of what was probably the Southern Cross on exiting the Gambia River in 1455, calling it the carro dell ' ostro (" southern chariot ").
The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross.
In Australia, the Southern Cross played a crucial role as symbol of the Eureka Stockade.
In the Eureka Oath from Peter Lalor's famous speech in 1854 under the Eureka Flag he proclaimed " We swear by the Southern Cross to stand truly by each other and fight to defend our rights and liberties.
" Of the Australian national flag, the Australian poet Banjo Paterson wrote in 1893: The English flag may flutter and wave, where the world wide oceans toss, but the flag the Australian dies to save, is the flag of the Southern Cross.
The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.
The victory song of the Australian national cricket team is entitled " Under the Southern Cross I Stand ".
The Southern Cross was included in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem ( 1909 ): " A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece " (" the image of the Cross shines ").
In O Sweet Saint Martin's Land, the lyrics for the Southern Cross are Thy Southern Cross the night.
The Māori name for the Southern Cross is Te Punga (" the anchor ").
In Mapudungun, the language of Patagonian Mapuches, the name of the Southern Cross is Melipal, which means " four stars ".
The peoples of the Solomon Islands saw several figures in the Southern Cross.
In the Victory At Sea suite, Richard Rodgers wrote " Beneath The Southern Cross " to depict the battleships in convoy and the loneliness of the sailors in the Southern Pacific during World War II.

Southern and Cables
* Southern Cross Cables to New Zealand, Hawaii and the US mainland with a capacity of 620Gbit / s, with planned upgrade in Q2 2012.
The SingTel group owns a 40 % interest in Southern Cross Cables Limited.
Also in 1998, Telecom celebrated 500, 000 mobile customers connected to its mobile network, Southern Cross Cables Limited ( half owned by Telecom ) announced plans to build a fibre-optic cable linking New Zealand with Australia and North America, and Vodafone New Zealand bought BellSouth and started a campaign to attract Telecom customers to its network.
The Southern Cross Cable, operated by Bermuda company Southern Cross Cables Limited, is a trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables commissioned in 2000.
It is one of the landing points for the Southern Cross telecommunications Cables.

Southern and Fiji
* Southern Cross Cable, a submarine communications cable connecting New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and the United States
Fiji Village quoted Energy Minister Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi on 22 September 2006 as confirming that the Southern Cross Management Company Limited had applied for a license to drill for petroleum in Fiji's waters.
New Zealand formed the Southern Independent Commando in Fiji 1942.
Widely grown as an ornamental, the species has become naturalised in the Southern United States, Christmas Island, the Cook Islands, Galapagos Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Sri Lanka and Tonga amongst many other locales.
In late 2007, Southern Cross Cable's operations vice president, Dean Veverka, confirmed that hurricane strength storms and flooding had wiped out the carrier's Oregon cable route and halved its bandwidth between Australia / New Zealand / Fiji and USA.
A large amount of live rock comes from the Southern Pacific region, in areas such as Fiji, Tonga, and the Marshall Islands, as well as from the Caribbean.
After the massacre, seamen who were housed on the island escaped in a small, open launch, towing two lifeboats They sailed to Nonouti, in the Southern Gilberts, where they were met by the Degei, commanded by Captain Jack Webster in which they returned from Nonouti to Fiji.
It has also featured on the banknotes of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Bermuda, Hong Kong, British Honduras, the British Caribbean Territories currency board ( consisting of Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Anguilla, Saba, St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, St Lucia, Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guyana and the British Virgin Islands ), Mauritius, Southern Rhodesia, Cyprus, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Fiji, Belize, the Bahamas, Malta, Malaya and North Borneo, and Jamaica.
His travels as a Hand included Southern Rhodesia, Morocco, Liberia, Cameroon, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hawaii, Jamaica, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Western Samoa.
Davies and his teammates then embarked on a short tour of the Southern Hemisphere as part of the side's preparation for the 1987 Rugby World Cup and included victories over Fiji, Tonga and Western Samoa.
The Southern Cross first stopped for rest and refuelling in Hawaii before setting off for Fiji.

Southern and Hawaii
**** Southern Cross Cable ( to Australia and Hawaii )
* Synod of Southern California and Hawaii
The Southern Pacific Division consists of Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii, and Nevada.
It currently encompasses Southern California, the Las Vegas metropolitan area, and Hawaii.
Southern platys, and other introduced poeciliids, have been implicated in the decline of native damselflies on Oahu, Hawaii.
* 1926-Charles J. McDonald, a Southern Baptist layman, started work in the town of Wahiawa, Territory of Hawaii, with a Sunday School which eventually became the First Baptist Church of Wahiawa.
In particular, the Merriam kangaroo rat ranges through Southern California, Utah, Southwest New Mexico, Arizona, northern Mexico and Hawaii and live in areas of low rainfall and humidity, and high summer temperature and evaporation rates.
Most of the almost 30 species are found in temperate and subtropical oceans in the Southern Hemisphere, but three ( Cheilodactylus quadricornis, C. zebra and C. zonatus ) are restricted to northwest Pacific off Japan and China, and C. vittatus is restricted to Hawaii.
It is largely marketed as a self-defense system, and is derived from traditional Japanese martial arts and other martial arts such as Southern Chinese kung fu found in the cultural melting pot of Hawaii.
The antipodes of South Africa and Zimbabwe are in the North Pacific Ocean, with Botswana antipodal to Hawaii, though as Southern Hemisphere ex-British colonies, they are sometimes included as antipodeans in colloquial English.
The Jaguars have future football contests scheduled with Mississippi St, NC State, Hawaii, Navy, Tennessee, LSU, Oklahoma St, Tulane, Georgia, Nebraska, Louisiana Tech, and Southern Miss, including home contests with many of those schools in the future years.
After leaving Southern Pacific in 1989, Jenkins relocated to Hawaii where he was introduced to Hawaiian artist Kapono Beamer and began writing music with him.
It has been widely introduced elsewhere, by being sold as a pet lizard, and is now found in Florida and as far north as southern Georgia, Texas, Taiwan, Hawaii, Southern California, and other Caribbean islands.
" He studied briefly at the University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy and spent sabbatical semesters at the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) in Chile and at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii.
Today, KFI broadcasts from its Burbank, California studios on 640 kHz on a 50, 000-watt non-directional AM transmitter which is located in nearby La Mirada at 33 ° 52 ' 47 " N, 118 ° 00 ' 47 " W. As a class A signal, KFI can be heard throughout Southern California and some distance into Nevada, Arizona, northwestern Mexico, and, at night, in some parts of Hawaii and most of the western United States.
If one is in Hawaii or Southern California it will exchange extremely well ; however, those areas are some of the most expensive in the world, subject to demand typical of a highly trafficked vacation area.
In addition to operating the two telescopes, AAO staff carry out astronomical research, as well as design and build innovative astronomical instrumentation for the AAT, UKST, and other telescopes including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, and the Japanese Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Between 1812 and 1840, representatives of the ABCFM went to the following people and places: Tennessee to the Cherokee people, India ( the Bombay area ), northern Ceylon ( modern day Sri Lanka ), the Sandwich Islands ( Hawaii ); east Asia: China, Singapore and Siam ( Thailand ); the Middle East: ( Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, the Holy Land and Persia ( Iran )); and Africa: Western Africa — Cape Palmas — and Southern Africa — among the Zulus ).
" She claimed Johnson had a fear that Hawaii would send representatives and senators to Congress who would oppose segregation, in spite of Johnson's record as a supporter of civil rights for blacks ( Johnson had hedged in his support for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to avoid splitting his party, giving it modest support and was to finally break up a Southern Democratic attempt to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1960 ).
He taught writing classes at the University of California at Los Angeles, University of Southern California, University of Alaska, and University of Hawaii.
During late November, a westerly disturbance developed into twin troughs on opposite sides of the equator ; the one in the Southern Hemisphere ultimately developed into Tropical Cyclone Pam, while the one in the Northern Hemisphere formed into an area of convection about 2000 km ( 1240 mi ) southwest of Hawaii.

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