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Coral Sea

noun

  1. a part of the S Pacific, bounded by NE Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides: U.S. naval victory over the Japanese, May 1942.


Coral Sea

noun

  1. the SW arm of the Pacific, between Australia, New Guinea, and Vanuatu


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Suppose we start with a coral sea and put in the middle of it an island such as the Mauritius.

Barbadoes is the most pleasant island in the Antilles; to sail round its green fringe of coral sea is simply charming.

I wrote the past in characters Of rock and fire the scroll, The building in the coral sea, The planting of the coal.

For once, the reality exceeded the most glowing accounts I had ever read of the wonders of a coral sea.

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