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South Sea

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Noun1.South SeaSouth Sea - any sea to the south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific)
sea - a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land


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There have been many editions of your works in this country, particularly the lovely South Sea sketches; but the editions are not equal to those of the American publishers.
But all this is quite different from a South Sea Sperm Whaler; which in a voyage of four years perhaps, after completely filling her hold with oil, does not, perhaps, consume fifty days in the business of boiling out; and in the state that it is casked, the oil is nearly scentless.
At the wheel stood a tall South Sea Islander, clad in white undershirt and scarlet hip-cloth.
 
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