Sea Islands

American  

plural noun

1. a group of islands in the Atlantic, along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and N Florida.

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Sea Islands British  

plural noun

1. a chain of islands in the Atlantic off the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida

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Example Sentences

In her “Sea Island Series,” Weems carefully pairs landscapes of the coastal Sea Islands off Georgia and the Carolinas with text evoking the Gullah culture that developed there.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Her father was a bass player, her aunt sang in his band, and her family runs a juke joint in her mother’s homeland, the Sea Islands of South Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2020

Long-staple cotton grew long delicate fibers with smooth seeds that a pair of rollers could easily separate, but it would not grow outside the semitropical environment of the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

She zeroed in on the Sea Islands off South Carolina and Georgia, which, during slavery, were a stopping point for many West African captives after the Middle Passage.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2016

In May, 1862, she boarded the Atlantic, a Government transport, headed for Beaufort, which is located on Port Royal, one of the Sea Islands, off the coast of South Carolina.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry