South Sea

Southsea English Proper noun South Sea 1 en southern region ocean/Pacific Ocean that surrounds the archipelagoes of Polynesia and Melanesia. en obsolete The Pacific Ocean. en obsolete The Southern Ocean. en 1844 John Hayes Probable Influence of Icebergs upon Drift Boston Journal of Natural History 4 429 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. en 1885 Adolph Howard An Ivestigation into the Isobaric Influences and Cyclonic Paths of South Africa Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 4 1 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 [Cape] 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. Related terms en South Seas Translations southern region of Pacific Ocean Catalan: ca Mar del Sud m Dutch: nl Stille Zuidzee f Finnish: fi Etelämeri French: fr mer du Sud f German: de Südsee f Hebrew: he הַיָּם הַדְרוֹמִי m Polish: pl Morze Południowe n Spanish: es mar del sur m Swedish: sv Söderhavet, sv söderhav n Southern Ocean Anagrams en aehosstu house sat house-sat housesat en Oceans