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    The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic...
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  • Look up Southern Cross in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Southern Cross or Crux is a star group visible mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. It has...
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    250 mi), in 1928. The Southern Cross began life as the Detroiter, a polar exploration aircraft of the Detroit News-Wilkins Arctic expedition. The aircraft had...
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    North" expedition, 1893–96. Pollux was sold to the Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink in 1897 and renamed Southern Cross, for the Southern Cross Expedition...
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    Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
    surgeon on the Southern Cross Expedition, 1898–1900, died of unrecorded causes during 1900. Jorgen Petersen, first mate on the Southern Cross, died in 1900...
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    be first to reach the South Pole. This was not attained, but the expedition's southern march reached a Farthest South latitude of 88° 23' S, just 97.5...
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    list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized...
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    Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres (230.5 miles) east of state capital Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded in...
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    Crux (redirect from Southern cross)
    of the southern sky that is centred on four bright stars in a cross-shaped asterism commonly known as the Southern Cross. It lies on the southern end of...
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    choosing to portage over Banks Island. Members of the Franklin expedition crossed the southern shore of King William Island and made it onto the Canadian...
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