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.

It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season's cotton and tobacco crops ; ;

It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.

The field, then, is ripe for new Southerners to step to the fore and write of this twentieth-century phenomenon, the Southern Yankeefication: the new urban economy, the city-dweller, the pains of transition, the labor problems ; ;

Truman Capote is still reveling in Southern Gothicism, exaggerating the old Southern legends into something beautiful and grotesque, but as unreal as -- or even more unreal than -- yesterday.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

This bold self-assertion, after decades of humble subservience, is indeed a twentieth-century phenomenon, an abrupt change in the Southern way of existence.

Presenting an individualized Negro character, it would seem, is one of the most difficult assignments a Southern writer could tackle ; ;

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

In the meantime, while the South has been undergoing this phenomenal modernization that is so disappointing to the curious Yankee, Southern writers have certainly done little to reflect and promote their region's progress.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

There is no necessity, I suppose, to assert that Mr. Faulkner is Southern.

His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.

My intention, therefore, is not to say that Faulkner's awareness has been confined within the borders of the South, but rather that he has looked at his world as a Southerner and that presumably his outlook is Southern.

Desegregation is beginning in two more important Southern cities -- Dallas and Atlanta.

I would like to see you devote some space in an early issue to the news blackout concerning President Kennedy's activities, so far as Southern California is concerned.

Foliage is the outstanding photo subject in many of the Southern locales mentioned above and some specific tips on how and where to shoot it are in order.

As far as the color problem is concerned, there is but one great difference between the Southern white and the Northerner: the Southerner remembers, historically and in his own psyche, a kind of Eden in which he loved black people and they loved him.

The Southern Cross, which is now regarded as a separate constellation, was treated by the ancients as a mere asterism formed of the stars composing the centaur's legs.

One of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross ( in contrast to the Southern Cross ).

It forms part of the prominent asterism called the Southern Cross, which appears on five national flags.

Once Sigma Octantis ' approximate position has been determined, either by the major stars in Octans or using the Southern Cross method, it can be positively verified using an asterism.

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines "., along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ε Ser ( Yed Posterior ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

This star is of apparent magnitude 2. 79 and is located at a distance of about from Earth, the faintest of the four bright stars that form the prominent asterism known as the Southern Cross.

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ", along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

It was a member of the indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ".

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ", along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), ε Oph ( Yed Posterior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

It was a member of the indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines ".

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines "., along with δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ε Oph ( Yed Posterior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines "., along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), δ Ser ( Qin, Tsin ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ε Oph ( Yed Posterior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).

It was a member of indigenous Arabic asterism al-Nasaq al-Yamānī, " the Southern Line " of al-Nasaqān " the Two Lines "., along with α Ser ( Unukalhai ), ε Ser ( Ba, Pa ), δ Oph ( Yed Prior ), ε Oph ( Yed Posterior ), ζ Oph ( Han ) and γ Oph ( Tsung Ching ).