The “Apus the Bird of Paradise” and “Volans the Flying Fish” constellations are two constellations we will never see here in the northern hemisphere. Both are known as circumpolar and only move about the southern sky above the southern pole of the earth. These constellations helped European navigators of old in their explorations of southern Africa and its waters. It was Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Friederick de Houtman who discovered both constellations in the sixteenth century.

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