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

The Gullah Geechee people of the Sea Islands of South Carolina and Georgia have a history that spans centuries — to a time well before the establishment of a United States of America.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 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

But the so-called Sea Islands Hurricane of 1893 devastated the area after rolling ashore in Savannah, Georgia, and killed an estimated 2,000 people.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2018

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

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