The Southern Cross or Crux is a star group visible mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. It has been known by this English term since the late 18th century.

Southern Cross may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Music

  • "Southern Cross" (folk song), a Newfoundland folk ballad
  • "Southern Cross" (Crosby, Stills and Nash song) (1982)
  • "Southern Cross", a 1993 song by 808 State from Gorgeous
  • "Southern Cross", a 1975 song by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from The Car Over the Lake Album
  • "Visions (Southern Cross)", a song by Stratovarius from Visions
  • "Southern Cross", a song by Jason Webley from Counterpoint
  • “The Sign of the Southern Cross”, a song by Black Sabbath from the album Mob Rules

Newspapers

  • The Southern Cross (Argentina), an Argentine newspaper
  • The Southern Cross (South Africa), a South African national Catholic weekly newspaper
  • The Southern Cross (South Australia), a Catholic newspaper

Television

  • Seven Regional, formerly Southern Cross Television, an Australian television network
  • 10 Regional, formerly Southern Cross Ten, an Australian television channel
  • "Southern Cross", an episode of Robotech

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

  • Southern Cross (novel), a 1998 novel by Patricia Cornwell
  • Southern Cross (wordless novel), a 1951 wordless novel by Laurence Hyde
  • Gryphus 1 or the Southern Cross, a character in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
  • The Southern Cross, a fictional organization in Inferno Cop

Businesses and organisations

Businesses

  • Southern Cross Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Australia
  • Southern Cross Austereo, an Australian media company
  • Southern Cross Healthcare (United Kingdom), a former operator of rest and care homes
  • Southern Cross Healthcare Group (New Zealand), a health insurance and hospital operator
  • Southern Cross Telco, a telecommunications company in Australia

Education

  • Southern Cross Campus, a composite school in Auckland, New Zealand
  • Southern Cross College, a former name of Alphacrucis, a Christian college in Chester Hill, New South Wales, Australia
  • Southern Cross University, in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia
  • Southern Cross School, a K-12 school in Ballina, New South Wales, Australia

Heraldry

  • Order of the Southern Cross, a Brazilian order of knighthood
  • Eureka Flag or Southern Cross
  • Southern Cross or Confederate flag, a flag of the Confederate States of America

Places

  • Southern Cross, Queensland, a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Australia
  • Southern Cross, Victoria, a locality in Victoria, Australia
  • Southern Cross, Western Australia, a town in Western Australia

Transportation

Ships

  • MS Southern Cross, a cruise ship
  • Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship series)
  • Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship)
  • Southern Cross (yacht), a yacht that challenged for the 1974 America's Cup
  • SS Southern Cross, a list of steamships
  • Southern Cross, steam yacht ex-Rover in the 1930s, when owned by Howard Hughes

Other transportation

  • Southern Cross (automobile), an Australian automobile manufactured from 1931 to 1935
  • Southern Cross (aircraft), the Fokker F.VIIB/3m flown by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
  • Southern Cross railway station, Melbourne, Australia
  • Southern Cross railway station, Western Australia
  • Southern Cross Route, a flight route between Australasia and Europe through the Americas

Other uses

  • Southern Cross Cable, a submarine communications cable
  • Southern Cross Group, an Australian conservation organisation
  • Xanthosia rotundifolia, a plant species of Southwest Australia

See also

  • Berlin Südkreuz ('South Cross Berlin')
  • Flags depicting the Southern Cross
  • La Croix du Sud
  • Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
  • Southern Cross of Honor
  • Southern Cross 28, an American yacht design
  • Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, a 1984 anime series from Japan brought to the US as part of Robotech
  • Southern Cross Expedition 1898–1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink
  • Southern Cross News, the name of several news broadcasts