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The Sea Islands are a chain of over a hundred tidal and barrier islands on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the Southeastern United States, between the mouths of the Santee and St. Johns rivers along South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The largest is Johns Island, South Carolina. Sapelo Island is home to the Gullah people.
By tradition, the islands located in the southern Pacific have also often been called the South Sea Islands, [4] and their inhabitants have been called South Sea Islanders. The Hawaiian Islands have often been considered to be part of the South Sea Islands because of their relative proximity to the southern Pacific islands, even though they are ...
The umbrella term Pacific Islands has taken on several meanings. [1] Sometimes it is used to refer only to the islands defined as lying within Oceania. [2] [3] [4] At other times, it is used to refer to the islands of the Pacific Ocean that were previously colonized by the British, French, Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, or Japanese, or by the United States.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the geographical region of Oceania. Although it is mostly ocean and spans many tectonic plates, Oceania is occasionally listed as one of the continents. Most of this list follows the boundaries of geopolitical Oceania, which includes Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
United States Minor Outlying Islands: Loose scattered archipelago of eight Pacific insular areas with one Caribbean (Navassa Island) Continental shelf United States: 41 16 300 7.3 19 Pacific Ocean, Micronesia, Polynesia, and Caribbean Sea U.S. Virgin Islands [n 17] Archipelago: Continental shelf United States: 346 134 87,146 [13] 252 650
Five South Carolina sea islands to visit. Hunting Island — Beaufort County As one of South Carolina’s most-visited state parks, Hunting Island is no secret.
Today the term South Seas, or South Sea, most commonly refers to the portion of the Pacific Ocean south of the equator. [1] [2] [3] The term South Sea may also be used synonymously for Oceania, or even more narrowly for Polynesia or the Polynesian Triangle, an area bounded by the Hawaiian Islands, New Zealand and Easter Island.
South Seas, a common name for the South Pacific; The Southern Sea, an alternate name for the Gulf of Mexico, particularly during the Mexican-American War; Southern Ocean or the Great Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Ocean and the South Polar Ocean; South China Sea, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan; Namhae (sea) or South ...