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Map of the South Sky

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Part of The World Map project.
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It is of note that most of these constellations have modern, uninspired names. They were unknown to the ancients, who had  no idea of what lay below the equator. (Dante even put Purgatory south of the equator !!).

It doesn't help that there is NO south pole counterpart to Polaris.