title: Southern Star
text: # Southern Star
  
  Southern Star may refer to:
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * The Vanished Diamond, also translated as The Southern Star (French: L'Étoile du sud), an 1884 novel by Jules Verne and Paschal Grousset
     * The Southern Star, a 1969 comedy crime film directed by Sidney Hayers, based on the Jules Verne novel
  * Southern Star (album), a 1989 album by Alabama
     * "Southern Star" (song), a song for the album
  
  ## Companies
  
  ### Australia
  
  * Southern Star Group (formerly Southern Star Productions), a television producer and distributor
  * Endemol Southern Star, a joint venture between Southern Star Group and Endemol
  
  ### New Zealand
  
  * Southern Star (radio)
  
  ### South Sudan
  
  * Southern Star Airlines
  
  ### United States
  
  * Southern Star Amusement
  * Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline
  * Southern Star Concrete
  * Southern Star Brewing Company
  
  ## Newspapers
  
  * The Southern Star (Alabama), United States
  * The Southern Star (Brisbane), Australia
  * The Southern Star (County Cork), Ireland
  * The Southern Star (Montevideo), Uruguay
  * The Southern Star (Bega, New South Wales), Australia
  
  ## Places and structures
  
  * Southern Star, renamed Melbourne Star in 2013, a giant Ferris wheel in Melbourne, Australia
  * Midlothian, Texas, an American city also known as "DFW's Southern Star"
  * Southern Star, a pirate ship ride at Carowinds that goes upside-down twice
  * Southern Star Abbey, a Cistercian abbey in New Zealand
  * Southern Star Amphitheater at AstroWorld in Houston, Texas
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Southern Star, a racehorse that finished last in the 2003 Grand National and was a non-finisher in the 2004 Grand National
  * SS Belocean, a heavy lift ship launched in 1945 and renamed MV Southern Star in 1964
  