South Sea

Definitions

1. A southern region of the Pacific Ocean that surrounds the archipelagoes of Polynesia and Melanesia.
2. The Pacific Ocean.
   obsolete
3. The Southern Ocean.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“The term Iceberg was originally given to the glaciers of Spitzbergen and Greenland, and is now applied by the South Sea sealers and whalers to the glaciers of the South Shetlands, South Georgia, Sandwich Land⟳, and Terra del Fuego.”

“By referring to the charts for both January and July, it will be seen that a permanent area of low pressure exists to the south of us, but that whereas the positions of the anti-cyclones during January cause the storms formed in this area to have⟳ but little effect on the [Cape] Colony, their positions during July being much farther north, exposes the whole Colony to the full force⟳ of the South Sea cyclones.”

“The South Sea skins, being the skins of seals principally caught on the South Shetland Islands, South Georgia Islands, and Sandwich Land⟳.”

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