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.1844, John Hayes, “Probable Influence of Icebergs upon Drift”, in Boston Journal of Natural History, volume 4, page 429
   • 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...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