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26-459: Southern Star may refer to: Arts and entertainment [ edit ] 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) ,

52-1054: A 1989 album by Alabama "Southern Star" (song) , a song for the album Southern Star (Brent Cobb album) , 2023 Companies [ edit ] Australia [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Southern Star (radio) South Sudan [ edit ] Southern Star Airlines United States [ edit ] Southern Star Amusement Southern Star Central Gas Pipeline Southern Star Concrete Southern Star Brewing Company Newspapers [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Southern Star, renamed Melbourne Star in 2013,

78-463: A diamond. His experiment seems to work as a 243 carat (48.6 g) diamond is produced. He gives it to Mr. Watkins for Alice. Mr. Watkins holds a banquet in honor of Cyprien and his accomplishment. The diamond, christened as The Star of the South by Alice, is on display during this banquet. Midway through the banquet, the diamond vanishes as well as Victor's African hired help, Mataki. Mataki appears to flee with

104-447: A fortune by mining with a partner, Thomas Steel. They buy a mining claim and proceed to dig. Victor hires a team of Africans to mine the claim. The claim collapses when Victor's team of hired help is digging. He manages to rescue one of them, Mataki. Achieving no great finds, Victor is disheartened for there are many more eligible suitors than he. Alice begs Cyprien to return to his studies. So Victor decides to attempt to artificially make

130-595: 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 [ edit ] Southern Star, a racehorse that finished last in

156-529: Is a diamond found in Brazil in July 1853. The diamond is cut into a cushion shape and weighs 128.48 carats (25.696 g). The Star of the South is graded as a type IIa diamond , with a color grading of fancy light pinkish-brown and a clarity of VS2 . At the time when Madi Magassa discovered it at Bagagem River , the diamond weighed 254.5 carats (50.90 g). It has passed through the hands of many owners, including

182-473: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Vanished Diamond This novel takes place in South Africa amongst the diamond fields in the district of Griqualand . Most of the land is owned by a fictitious wealthy miner, Mr. John Watkins. A shanty town filled with miners has sprung up, all with the hope to get rich. The main area of diamond mining

208-548: Is the Vandergaart Kopje . The protagonist is a French mining engineer, Victor Cyprien (in the original French version: Cyprien Méré). He moves to the Griqualand district to study the formation of diamonds. While he is there he falls in love with wealthy landowner Mr. John Watkins' daughter, Alice. He asks him for her hand in marriage but is denied on his lack of money and stature in the community. He decides that he could amass

234-650: 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 See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "southern star" on Misplaced Pages. Star of the South , a diamond gemstone South Star , the south polar star(s) Southstar , U.S. rapper Southstar , German DJ All pages with titles beginning with Southern Star All pages with titles containing Southern Star Southern Stars (disambiguation) Southern (disambiguation) Star (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

260-564: The Bagagem River in the city now called Estrela do Sul Diamond Mines in Brazil. It was handed over to her master, Casimiro de Moraes, who rewarded her for finding the diamond by granting her freedom and a pension for life. Casimiro de Moraes later sold it for £3,000, a price far lower than its actual value. The buyer deposited the diamond at the Bank of Rio de Janeiro for £30,000. The uncut diamond

286-546: The Maharaja of princely Baroda State in India, and its last known purchase was by Cartier , the French luxury jeweler around 2002, when it was sold to them by Rustomjee Jamsetjee of Mumbai . The light reflected by the diamond is white, and the refracted light is of a rose tint. This gives the diamond its light pinkish-brown hue. The diamond was found by Madi Magassa in 1853, at

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312-532: The Maharani Sītā Devī , was photographed wearing the necklace at her husband Maharajah Pratāp Sinh's birthday party. The Star of the South was later purchased by Rustomjee Jamsetjee of Mumbai, who sold it to Cartier in 2002. Cartier set the diamond into a bracelet for the 2006 Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris. The diamond was last seen worn by Sheikha Moza of Qatar, who is said to have purchased it from Cartier, at

338-588: The Musée and with the University of Nantes . The Southern Star (French title: L'Étoile du sud ) is a 1969 British-French comedy crime film based on the novel, directed by Sidney Hayers and starring George Segal, Ursula Andress and Orson Welles. French cartoonist Jacques Rémise adapted the story into a newspaper comic between 1956 and 1957. Star of the South The Star of the South , also known as 'Limar',

364-449: The South has a color grading of light pinkish-brown, pink and brown being two colors that can show up in colorless diamonds of type IIa. It is a plastically deformed diamond of type IIa, and has a clarity of VS2. After the diamond was purchased by Cartier, Sangrām Sinh, the youngest son of Maharaja Pratāp Sinh Gaekwad of Baroda State , claimed that the Star of the South was among the heirlooms,

390-485: The diamond and Mr. Watkins, enraged, offers Alice's hand to whoever brings the diamond back. Victor and three other suitors set off to hunt Mataki down. They prepare to travel across the Veld . Victor brings along two companions his laundry man, Li, and a member of his digging team, Bardik. Along the way, the other three of his companions perish at the hands of animals or disease. Victor captures Mataki, who states he does not have

416-578: The diamond in 1862 at the Great London Exposition , and again in 1867 at the International Exposition in Paris. On both occasions, the Star of the South received considerable attention. The diamond was later sent to a diamond dealing house in India, where negotiations were carried out to sell it to a Maharajah for a price of £110,000. However, this deal was not successful and the diamond was returned to Halphen and Associates. During

442-528: The diamond necklace which contained the Star of the South diamond, as a part of the royal collection worth $ 10,000,000 at the time, housed in the Nazarbaug Palace in Baroda ; another important part of the collection was a cloth embroidered with precious stones and seed pearls, made to cover the tomb of Mohammed . In 1934, Prince Malhār Rāo’s son told Robert M. Shipley, an American gemologist about this. In 1948,

468-406: The diamond. The only reason he ran was because he was afraid he would be hanged unjustly for the diamond's disappearance. Victor returns to Griqualand and finds the diamond in the stomach of Alice's ostrich, Dada. Cyprien is almost hanged because his discovery of making artificial diamonds threatened the livelihood of the miners. He is only saved by Mataki's confession. Mataki found the diamond when he

494-538: The diamond’s stay in India, Prince Malhār Rāo of the royal family of Gaekwad got to know about the stone. He instructed E. H. Dresden of London to purchase the diamond, who purchased it from Halphen and Associates for £80,000 on behalf of the prince. The Star of the South was in the possession of the Gaekwad family for several years. It was later mounted on a necklace along with the 78.5 carats (15.70 g) English Dresden diamond. The Pittsburgh Press reported in 1927,

520-487: The next day of shock. Victor and Alice marry and live happily ever after. The original manuscript of the novel, titled "L'Étoile du Sud : Aventures au pays des diamants" ("The Southern Star: Adventures in the Land of Diamonds") was written by the novelist and activist Paschal Grousset under the pseudonym Philippe Daryl. The publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel bought the manuscript and assigned it to Jules Verne for revisions. It

546-423: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Southern Star . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Southern_Star&oldid=1231770478 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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572-448: The wedding of Crown Prince Hussein of Jordan to Rajwa Seif in 2023. At the time of discovery, the diamond had a rhombic dodecahedral form with obtuse angles and twenty four facets. There was a deep depression in one of the facets, indicating that it had accommodated another octahedral crystal. A few black specks were also present, caused by titanic iron or volcanic sand. The diamond originally weighed 254.5 carats (50.90 g) and

598-464: Was covered by the landslide and stuck it in Victor's experiment in gratitude. Victor is shocked. Not caring about the diamond's origin, Mr. Watkins is glad for the recovery and holds another banquet. Mr. Vandergaart, the original owner of the land, bursts in with a certificate saying that the land is once again his. John Watkins is devastated and is even more so when the Star of the South disintegrates. He dies

624-399: Was cut into an oval cushion shape weighing 128.48 carats (25.696 g), losing almost half of its weight in the cutting process. The dimensions of the Star of the South were 35 mm x 29 mm x 19 mm. The light reflected by the diamond is white, and the refracted light is of a rose tint. This is attributed to the prismatic form given to the crystal during its cutting. The Star of

650-479: Was passed through the hands of several buyers, until it was bought by Costers of Amsterdam for £35,000. It was then cut into an oval cushion shape by a cutter named Voorzanger, renowned for having been one of the two men who refashioned the Koh-i-Noor . It was purchased by Halphen and Associates of Paris, a syndicate of diamond merchants, who named it Estrela do Sul, or Star of the South. The syndicate exhibited

676-506: Was published in 1884 under Verne's name as the twenty-fifth novel in the Voyages extraordinaires series. In 2014, the Musée Jules Verne acquired Grousset's original manuscript. In 2020 a project was launched to prepare a critical edition of the manuscript, demonstrating the changes credited to Verne (whose own manuscript version is still missing and presumed lost), in association with

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