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SOUTH PACIFIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
That part of the Pacific Ocean to the south of the equator
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
part; piece (a portion of a natural object)
Holonyms ("South Pacific" is a part of...):
Pacific; Pacific Ocean (the largest ocean in the world)
Context examples:
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand.
(Cook Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
In late December 2014, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga erupted, sending a violent stream of steam, ash and rock into the air.
(NASA Shows New Tongan Island Made of Tuff Stuff, Likely to Persist Years, NASA)
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and New Zealand.
(American Samoa, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The team found extremely slow rates of respiration and approximately 1,000 cells per cubic centimeter of subseafloor sediment in the South Pacific gyre—rates and quantities that had been nearly undetectable.
(No limit to life in deep sediment of ocean's "deadest" region, NSF)
A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, about midway between Peru and New Zealand, southeast of French Polynesia.
(Pitcairn, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and New Zealand and east of Samoa.
(American Samoa, NCI Thesaurus)
A country in the Pacific, occupying an island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga and south of American Samoa.
(Niue, NCI Thesaurus)
“Potential fisheries catches will decrease by more than 50 per cent in many regions in the South Pacific,” says William Cheung, associate professor, University of British Columbia.
(Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas, SciDev.Net)
After a nine-week voyage to study the lost, submerged continent of Zealandia in the South Pacific, a team of 32 scientists from 12 countries has arrived in Hobart, Tasmania, aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.
(Scientists return from expedition to lost continent of Zealandia, National Science Foundation)
The bay, as he remembered it, was magnificent, with water deep enough to accommodate the largest vessel afloat, and so safe that the South Pacific Directory recommended it to the best careening place for ships for hundreds of miles around.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
