What can the Southern Cross determine?

1, the position that the Southern Cross can determine is due south.

The Southern Cross is one of the southern constellations. Usually, navigators in the southern hemisphere use the Southern Cross to determine the due south direction. The southern cross constellation, near the south celestial pole, is composed of four bright stars, shaped like a cross, which is drawn from the vertical bottom of the cross to a point about four times the vertical length. You can see the whole constellation south of the Tropic of Cancer.