Meaning of Southern Cross | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A rural locality in Charters Towers Region, northern Queensland.
2. A distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross, which appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
3. A place in Australia:
4. A locality in the Shire of Moyne, south-west Victoria.
5. The constellation as a symbol of Australia, New Zealand and various other places in the Southern Hemisphere.
6. A town in the Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia.

Examples

“The stars had not quite faded out of the sky, and the Southern Cross was still shining faintly in the heavens; the jungle all round was very still, just as if Nature was waiting to introduce the busy hum of life till the last solemn scene was over.”

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