South Sea

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South Sea

proper noun the South Sea

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

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name southern region of Pacific Ocean

Españolmar del sur
Françaismer du Sud
DeutschSüdsee
עבריתהַיָּם הַדְרוֹמִי

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@misc{south_sea_2026,
  title = {South Sea},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/south%20sea},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}