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3 unusual facts about Southern Cross


Frederick Bailey Deeming

By means of forged testimonials Deeming had obtained a position at a mine at Southern Cross.

Southern Cross-Island Highway

The section from Meishan to Yakou Tunnel lies within Yushan National Park.

Southern Cross, Western Australia

The town of Southern Cross is one of the many towns which run along the Mundaring to Kalgoorlie Goldfields Water Supply Scheme engineered by C. Y. O'Connor.


Flag of Tasmania

The flag had a white cross on a blue field, in the canton was the Union Flag, and in the fly was five five-pointed stars of the Southern Cross.

Keith Virtue

They were in Avro 618 Tens, the City of Sydney and City of Brisbane, with Charles Kingsford Smith in the Southern Cross.

SS Viking

Viking was a wooden-hulled whaling ship built by Nylands at Christiania, Norway in 1881, the same location where another famous Newfoundland vessel, Southern Cross, was constructed.

Toowoomba Airport

In August 1932 Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, a pioneer Australian aviator, landed at Toowoomba in his Fokker Trimotor named the 'Southern Cross'.

Working Narrow Boat Hadar

It is in the southern hemisphere and part of the Centaurus constellation and one of the two stars that point to the Southern Cross.


see also

1978 Southern Cross Games

The I Southern Cross Games (Spanish: Juegos Cruz del Sur) were a multi-sport event held from November 3 to November 12, 1978 in La Paz, Bolivia, with some events in Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Austereo Radio Network

In July 2011, Southern Cross Media and Austereo were merged to form Southern Cross Austereo.

Avro Avian

On 7 January 1931 Guy Menzies flew an Avian, the Southern Cross Junior, from Australia to New Zealand.

Charles Doudiet

In January 2012 an article in The Age newspaper discusses a theory that the work Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross is a forgery, although the writer concluded I don't for a minute believe that Doudiet's watercolours are fake, ....

Christian Argenti

In 2010 and 2011, Argenti hosted the national drive sports radio show 'The Home Straight' with former AFL player Peter 'Spida' Everitt and former NRL player Scott Sattler on the Southern Cross Austereo 'Localworks' network across Australia.

Craig Ireson

The Word Collective's only regular spoken word event is "Howltearoa", a monthly open mic night at the Southern Cross Bar, off Cuba Street, Wellington.

Dana Sterling

In the decanonized book "Southern Cross" (book 7 of the series) by Jack McKinney, Dana's childhood is depicted as being very difficult after her parents left with the REF mission in 2022.

Flag of the Southern Cross

Flag of the Southern Cross is a poem written in 1887 by Australian bush poet Henry Lawson.

Gibson Southern Cross Country

Gibson Southern Cross Country is the Titan and Lady Titan long distance running programs at Gibson Southern High School in Fort Branch, Indiana.

GTS/BKN

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.

Leisel Jones

While at Southern Cross Catholic College, Jones used to train at the Redcliffe club in Scarborough, Queensland, and was coached by Ken Wood.

Louis Bernacchi

He joined Carstens Borchgrevink's Southern Cross expedition (1898–1900) which wintered at Cape Adare, Antarctica, joining the expedition in New Zealand after the previous physicist candidate had been rejected on medical grounds.

Moorhead, Mississippi

It is widely believed that W. C. Handy, after hearing an old man singing about "where the Southern cross the Yellow Dog", was moved by the sound and began what came to be known as the "blues".

Nikos Kavvadias

His poetry was popularized in Greece, partly because some of his poems have been set to music by Thanos Mikroutsikos in his very popular albums Σταυρός του Νότου (Southern Cross) and Γραμμές των Οριζόντων (Horizons' Lines).

Orders, decorations, and medals of South Africa

The three Protea Decorations for Merit are for leadership, meritorious conduct or devotion to duty in place of the previous Southern Cross Decoration, Southern Cross Medal and Military Merit Medal.

Robert Felkin

In 1912 Felkin, together with Harriet and Ethelwyn, visited Havelock North, New Zealand at the invitation of the Society of the Southern Cross.

Southern Cross Drive

'Southern Cross Drive' is also the name of an important arterial road in Cape Town, South Africa, on the eastern side of Table Mountain.

Southern Cross News

Southern Cross GTS/BKN broadcasts a 30-minute local news program for the Spencer Gulf and Broken Hill areas each weeknight at 6.30pm, following Seven News Adelaide.

Southern Cross of Honor

On the back of the medal is the motto of the Confederate States of America, "Deo Vindice" (With God As Our Vindicator), the dates 1861 1865, and the inscription, "From the UDC to the UCV." (UDC stands for the United Daughters of the Confederacy; UCV stands for the United Confederate Veterans.) The Southern Cross of Honor could only be bestowed through the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Southern Cross Television

Southern Cross Television, or SCTV, is an Australian television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, Regional South Australia, Remote Central and Eastern Australia and Norfolk Island.

SS Beljeanne

In March 1964, Beljeanne was sold to Bacong Shipping Co SA, Panama City, Panama and renamed Southern Cross.

Staurikosaurus

Staurikosaurus means "Southern Cross" (after the star constellation visible from the Southern Hemisphere) and "Lizard" (from the Greek work "saurus" meaning lizard), thus "Southern Cross Lizard." The species name pricei is in the honor of Colbert's fellow paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price.

Sydney Airports Corporation

Southern Cross Airports Corporation Holdings Limited (SCACH) is the ultimate parent company of SACL, which is controlled by a number of entities including Sydney Airport Holdings.

Xanthosia rotundifolia

The informal name of this species, Southern Cross, is derived from the common name of the constellation Crux.