1. South Sea - Noun
2. South Sea - Proper noun
any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)
Source: WordNetMen are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Almagro wanted to have a ship built with the remaining materials of the Espinosa expedition, to be finished on the coast of the "Great South Sea," as the Pacific Ocean was first called by the Spanish. Source: Internet
Australian pearl divers dive for south sea pearl oysters to be used in the cultured south sea pearl industry. Source: Internet
Carswell, p. 103 In 1719 the South Sea Company proposed to take over £31 million (three fifths) of the British national debt by exchanging government securities for stock in the company. Source: Internet
Black cultured pearls from the black pearl oyster – Pinctada margaritifera – are not South Sea pearls, although they are often mistakenly described as black South Sea pearls. Source: Internet
John Callander put forward a proposal in 1766 for Britain to found a colony of banished convicts in the South Sea or in Terra Australis to enable the mother country to exploit the riches of those regions. Source: Internet