Southern Cross (disambiguation)

The Southern Cross or Crux is a constellation visible in the Southern Hemisphere.

Southern Cross may also refer to:

Business

• Southern Cross Broadcasting, a broadcasting company in Australia
• 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

Exploration

• Southern Cross Expedition 1898-1900, an expedition to Antarctica led by Carsten Borchgrevink in the ship Southern Cross

Heraldry

• Southern Cross, a name for the Eureka Flag in Australia
• Southern Cross, an alternate name for the "Confederate Flag"
• Several flags that depict the Southern Cross constellation
• Order of the Southern Cross, a Brazilian Order of knighthood

Music

• "Beneath the Southern Cross", a song by Patti Smith from Gone Again
• "Southern Cross" (Crosby, Stills and Nash song), a 1982 song by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
• "Southern Cross" (folk song), a Newfoundland folk ballad
• "Southern Cross", a song by 808 State on the 1993 album Gorgeous
• "Southern Cross", a 1975 song by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their album The Car Over the Lake Album
• "The Sign of the Southern Cross", a song by Black Sabbath from Mob Rules
• "Visions (Southern Cross)", a song by Stratovarius from Visions
• Northern Lights – Southern Cross, a 1975 album by The Band

Print media

• Southern Cross (Georgia), the official newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah
• The Southern Cross (Argentina), an Argentine newspaper by Patrick Joseph Dillon (1842–1889), a Roman Catholic priest, editor, and politician
• The Southern Cross (South Africa), South African national Catholic weekly newspaper.
• The Southern Cross (South Australia) Catholic newspaper
• Southern Cross (book), a 1951 wordless novel by Canadian artist Laurence Hyde

Television

• "Southern Cross", an episode of Robotech, see List of Robotech episodes
• Southern Cross Television, a television network available in Tasmania, Darwin, South and Central Australia
• Southern Cross Ten, a television channel available in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory
• Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross, a 1984 anime series from Japan brought to the USA as part of Robotech

Transport

Automobiles

• Southern Cross (automobile), an Australian automobile manufactured from 1931 to 1935

Aviation

• Southern Cross (aircraft), the Fokker F.VIIB/3m flown by pioneer aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith
• Southern Cross Route, a flight route between Australasia and Europe through the Americas

Rail stations

• South Cross Berlin (literally), see Berlin Südkreuz railway station
• Southern Cross railway station, Melbourne, a Melbourne railway station (formerly Spencer Street Station)

Ships

• MS Southern Cross, a cruise ship
• Southern Cross (Melanesian Mission ship series), a series of ships serving the Melanesian Mission

• Southern Cross (1891 Melanesian Mission ship), one of the Melanesian Mission ships

• Southern Cross (yacht), a yacht that challenged for the 1974 America's Cup
• SS Southern Cross, several steamships named Southern Cross
• Southern Cross, the renamed steam yacht Rover owned by eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes in the 1930s

Other uses

• Southern Cross, Western Australia, town in Australia
• Southern Cross Cable, a submarine communications cable connecting New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, and the United States
• Southern Cross Astronomical Society, an amateur astronomy society in Florida
• Southern Cross Aerobatic Squadron (Spanish: Escuadrilla Acrobática Cruz del Sur), the aerobatic demonstration team of the Argentine Air Force
• Southern Cross of Honor
• Gryphus 1, aka the "Southern Cross" is the player's character in Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception
• Informal name of Xanthosia rotundifolia, a plant found in Southwest Australia