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Tasman Sea

American  
[taz-muhn] / ˈtæz mən /

noun

  1. a part of the Pacific Ocean between SE Australia and New Zealand.


Tasman Sea British  

noun

  1. the part of the Pacific between SE Australia and NW New Zealand

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But in the remaining sections, officials said China's February 2025 deployment to the Tasman Sea was conducted in accordance with international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

In late February and early March, three Chinese navy ships traveled through the Tasman Sea and around Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 2025

And in a pizza restaurant in Whangārei, the sailors signed a visitors’ guestbook, filling a page with their exploits on the Tasman Sea and along the coast.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

In a statement to the BBC, Qantas confirmed that it had changed the routes of its planes flying across the Tasman Sea and said it was continually monitoring airspace.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025

With Dave Dawson, and some two dozen Army, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots, he stood on the deck of an American destroyer steaming out of Sydney into the Tasman Sea at full knots.

From Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sydney Bowen

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