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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Sea Islands

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

“The Sea Islands are sacred ground; they represent our Ellis Island,” Ms. Dash said in a “making of” short about the film.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2016

Many game songs originated in the Georgia Sea Islands, a series of over 100 islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin