South Sea Islands

American  

plural noun

1. the islands in the S Pacific Ocean.

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South Sea Islands British  

plural noun

1. the islands in the S Pacific that constitute Oceania

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South Sea Islands Cultural  

1. The islands in the South Seas.

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Other Word Forms

• South Sea Islander
  noun

Example Sentences

His supposition is that those black Indians have descended from black explorers who anciently fared from the Malayan Peninsula or South Sea Islands along an archipelago which, he premises, spanned the whole Pacific.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is nothing in the White Shadows of the South Seas as convincing as the tattooing of a native in that honest old film, Moana of the South Sea Islands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Equipped with Frederick O'Brien's book bearing this name, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer squad sailed for Tahiti in the South Sea Islands to make a picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first time since World War II, the South Sea Islands will be easily available to tourists.

From Time Magazine Archive

But among these South Sea Islands are prehistoric ruins and monuments which are believed to antedate the Sphinx.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray