Southern Cross
Southern Cross is a town in Western Australia, 371 kilometres east of state capital Perth on the Great Eastern Highway. It was founded in 1888 after gold prospectors Richard Greaves and Ted Paine during their October 1887 expedition successfully found gold, and gazetted in 1890.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 523 residents
- Description: town in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Southern Cross, Western Australia” and “Southern Cross, Western Australia, Australia”
Southern Cross
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Shire of Yilgarn, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
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Latitude
-31.22827° or 31° 13′ 42″ southLongitude
119.32778° or 119° 19′ 40″ eastPopulation
523Elevation
362 metres (1,188 feet)IATA airport code
SQCUnited Nations Location Code
AU SQCOpen location code
4PWXQ8CH+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 31064970OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2061298Wikidata ID
Q983647
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Southern Cross” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ساوثرن كروس”
- Asturian: “Southern Cross”
- Cebuano: “Southern Cross”
- Dutch: “Southern Cross (Shire of Yilgarn)”
- Dutch: “Southern Cross, Western Australia”
- Dutch: “Southern Cross”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساوثرن كروس”
- French: “Southern Cross”
- German: “Southern Cross”
- Hebrew: “קרוס הדרומית”
- Italian: “Southern Cross”
- Japanese: “サザン・クロス”
- Persian: “ساوترن کراس، استرالیای غربی”
- Polish: “Southern Cross”
- Portuguese: “Southern Cross”
- Russian: “Саутерн-Кросс”
- Samogitian: “Southern Cross”
- Spanish: “Southern Cross (Australia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Southern Cross”
- Swedish: “Southern Cross, Western Australia”
- Swedish: “Southern Cross”
- “Southern Cross”
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