Coal Sack

The white man calls it the coal-sack, and explains how it comes about.

The stars are changed; the southern cross, the Magellanic clouds, the "coal-sack" in the milky way, attract our notice.

This gulf of Cimmerian darkness was called by early navigators the Coal Sack.

The stars are changed; the southern cross, the Magellanic clouds, the “coal-sack” in the milky way, attract our notice.

In many regions its light is interrupted, especially in Centaurus, where a dark starless region exists, known as the "coal sack."