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 Cross GTS / BKN broadcasts Seven Network programming including AFL telecasts other sporting and major events.

On Sunday 31 October 2010, Southern Cross GTS / BKN commenced broadcasting a full-time Channel Nine station available in digital broadcast format only.

The Southern Cross Central service ( unrelated to the original Central GTS / BKN ) and Imparja Television are available via satellite and terrestrial transmission in the adjacent areas.

The network expanded into the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill areas on 31 December 2003 under a supplementary license granted to Southern Cross GTS / BKN by the ABA.

GTS / BKN, known on-air as Southern Cross Television, is an Australian regional television station serving the Spencer Gulf of South Australia and the Broken Hill area of New South Wales.

In January 2006, Central GTS / BKN was renamed Southern Cross GTS / BKN, changing its logo to the same one currently used by Southern Cross Tasmania and Southern Cross Darwin.

The main Southern Cross GTS / BKN service carries programming from the Seven Network, including the Adelaide edition of Seven News ' nightly 6pm bulletin.

Southern Cross News is GTS / BKN's half-hour regional news program, broadcast at 6: 30pm on weeknights.

In 2000 Southern Cross Broadcasting bought out both Telecasters Australia and Central GTS / BKN, subsequently removing any remaining local references, and rebranding its new stations with the ' Southern Cross ' name.

The solus operators in the regional licence areas of South Australia have been granted an 38A licence, being allocated on 2002-04-24. Spencer Gulf / Broken Hill: Central GTS / BKN, owned by Southern Cross Broadcasting was granted callsigns SGS and SCN, and branded as Southern Cross Ten, carrying Ten Network programming.

* Southern Cross GTS / BKN ( Seven )

* 31 December – Southern Cross Ten goes on air as a supplementary broadcaster to existing solus broadcaster Central GTS / BKN in the Spencer Gulf region of South Australia and the Broken Hill area of New South Wales.

* GTS / BKN, the callsign of a TV station known on-air as Southern Cross Television in Port Pirie, South Australia

Named for Desmond Tutu, former visiting professor at GTS and retired Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, the Tutu Center operates primarily as a hotel and conference center.

* Stations branded Southern Cross Television are usually dual affiliates of the Seven Network and Network Ten, with some exceptions ( for instance, GTS / BKN and Southern Cross Central ( QQQ )).

The Adelaide bulletin is simulcast to the regional areas of South Australia on Southern Cross Television GTS / BKN in the Spencer Gulf region and Broken Hill in New South Wales, and through WIN Television South Australia in the Riverland and Mount Gambier / South East regions of the state.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube ( Crux / Southern Cross Sports Club ) is a first class football ( soccer ) club in Brazil.

* ( 1970 ) Nominated – Best Original Screenplay / Easy Rider ( shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern )

* ( 1970 ) Nominated-Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen / Easy Rider ( shared with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern )

El Niño – Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ), or El Niño / La Niña – Southern Oscillation, is a quasiperiodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years.

* May: ( May 30 / 31, 1995, Lapinjärvi, Southern Finland )

During the transition from last glacial to holocene, the Huelmo / Mascardi Cold Reversal in the Southern Hemisphere began before the Younger Dryas, and the maximum warmth flowed south to north from 11, 000 to 7, 000 years ago.

* Afghanistan ( Southern Khorasan / Arachosia )

The titles Guanyin of the Southern Ocean ( 南海觀音 ) and " Guanyin ( of / on ) the Island " stem from this tradition.

The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.

Mozambique also belongs to the Organization of African Unity / African Union and the Southern African Development Community.

The divergence of the three main descendant lines within Africa, L1 / A in Southern Africa ( Khoisan / Capoid peoples ), L2 / B in Central and West Africa ( Niger – Congo-and Nilo-Saharan-speaking peoples, Mbuti pygmies ), and L3 ( East Africa, Out-of-Africa migration ), dates to about 100 to 80 thousand years ago.

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* Southern Cross ( aircraft ), the Fokker F. VIIB / 3m flown by pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith

These may be standalone committees, or they may be organized by an existing local group ; a few groups such as MCFI in Boston and SCIFI ( Southern California Institute for Fan Interests ), Inc. in southern California are permanent corporations set up to run Worldcons ( or other one-off / rotating conventions ) in different years in the same area.

Later another army was sent to Yemen, and in 597 / 8 Southern Arabia became a province of the Sassanid Empire under a Persian satrap.

Although Nguni / Xhosa styles of fighting may use only two sticks, variations of Bantu / Nguni stick fighting throughout Southern Africa incorporate shields as part of the stick fighting weaponry.

Italian architects of the late Baroque / early Rococo were wooed to Catholic ( Southern ) Germany, Bohemia and Austria by local princes, bishops and prince-bishops.

Stephen Hagan, a lecturer at the Kumbari / Ngurpai Lag Higher Education Center of the University of Southern Queensland sued the Toowoomba council over the use of nigger in the stand's name ; the district and state courts dismissed his lawsuit.