South Sea
Balboa's named waters
The South Sea historically refers to the Pacific Ocean, especially in contexts of early European exploration and colonization.
The term appears most notably in the South Sea Bubble, an 18th-century British financial crisis involving the South Sea Company.
In the plural, the South Seas typically means the islands of the South Pacific: tales of adventure in the South Seas.
Eastern Oceania's island groups
- MelanesiaPacific island subregion
- MicronesiaPacific island region
- OceaniaPacific island collective
- PacificEarth's vastest ocean
archipelago · Tahiti · Fiji · Samoa · Tonga · Vanuatu · Solomon Islands · New Guinea
Journey by sea
- navigationDetermining position and course
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- discoveryAct of finding something
- BountyBrand or historic vessel
Magellan · Bligh · mutiny · whaling · cartography · colonization · missionary · trade
Wind-propelled water travel
- shipSeagoing transport vessel
- schoonerMulti-masted sailing craft
- vesselReceptacle for contents
- anchorSecures ships to seabed
mast · rigging · helm · captain · deckhand · port · starboard · bow
Strikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
- enchantingDelightfully attractive, spellbinding
- paradiseIdeal, blissful place
idyllic · Gauguin · escape · remoteness · seclusion · unspoiled · castaway · dreamlike
Polynesia
Eastern Oceania's island groups
- MelanesiaPacific island subregion
- MicronesiaPacific island region
- OceaniaPacific island collective
Pacific · archipelago · Tahiti · Fiji · Samoa · Tonga · Vanuatu · Solomon Islands · New Guinea · Papua
voyage
Journey by sea
- navigationDetermining position and course
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- discoveryAct of finding something
Magellan · Bligh · Bounty · mutiny · whaling · cartography · colonization · missionary · trade · charting
sailing
Wind-propelled water travel
anchor · mast · rigging · helm · captain · deckhand · port · starboard · bow · stern
exotic
Strikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- allureAttractive, tempting quality
- mysteriousBeyond easy comprehension
- enchantingDelightfully attractive, spellbinding
paradise · idyllic · Gauguin · escape · remoteness · seclusion · unspoiled · castaway · dreamlike · faraway
island
Water-bounded land mass
- lagoonSheltered coastal shallows
- coralMarine skeletal formation
- reefUnderwater rock or coral formation
atoll · palm · coconut · turquoise · paradise · balmy · monsoon · humidity · rainforest · mangrove
South SeaNorth Sea
Atlantic extension near Britain
Arctic Ocean · North Atlantic · North Pacific · Bering Sea · Atlantic Ocean
south, southern, southerly, southward, southwards, southerner, sea, seas, seaward