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Coral Sea

noun

An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia.

A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers. Synonym: battle of the Coral Sea.

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"Coral Sea" Quotes from Famous Books

... Islands, stopping perhaps at the Phoenix Islands and the Central Polynesian Sporades, such as Christmas and Fanning Isles. Then we proposed to turn south again through the Marshall Archipelago and the Caroline Islands, and so on to New Guinea and the Coral Sea. Particularly did we wish to visit Easter Island on account of its marvelous sculptures that are supposed to be the relics of a pre-historic race. In truth, however, we had no fixed plan except to go wherever circumstance and chance might take us. Chance, I may add, or ...

— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard

Words linked to "Coral Sea" : World War II, sea, Second World War, naval battle, Pacific Ocean, pacific, World War 2, battle of the Coral Sea