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English
Proper noun
the South Sea
- A southern region of the Pacific Ocean that surrounds the archipelagoes of Polynesia and Melanesia.
- (obsolete) The Pacific Ocean.
- (obsolete) The Southern Ocean.
1844, John Hayes, “Probable Influence of Icebergs upon Drift”, in Boston Journal of Natural History, volume 4, page 429: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.
1885, Adolph Howard, “An Ivestigation into the Isobaric Influences and Cyclonic Paths of South Africa”, in Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society, volume 4, number 1, page 31: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 Colony, their positions during July being much farther north, exposes the whole Colony to the full force of the South Sea cyclones.
- 1893. Bering Sea Arbitration, Vol. 3, p. 555:
- The South Sea skins, being the skins of seals principally caught on the South Shetland Islands, South Georgia Islands, and Sandwich Land.
Translations
southern region of Pacific Ocean
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