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South Seas
South Seas The oceans south of the equator, especially the southern Pacific Ocean. The name South Sea is a translation of El Mar del Sur, first used by Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 for the entire Pacific Ocean.South Seas pl n (Placename) the seas south of the equator South′ Seas′
n.pl. the seas south of the equator. TranslationsSouth Seas
South Seas, name given by early explorers to the whole of the Pacific Ocean. In recent times the name has been used to mean only the central Pacific, the S Pacific, and the SW Pacific. More particularly it is applied to the South Sea Islands (see OceaniaOceania
or Oceanica
, collective name for the approximately 25,000 islands of the Pacific, usually excluding such nontropical areas as the Ryukyu and Aleutian islands and Japan, as well as Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Philippines, whose populations are more closely
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