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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

... January we had made 11,340 miles, or 5,250 French leagues, since our starting-point in the Japan Seas. Before the ship's head stretched the dangerous shores of the coral sea, on the north-east coast of Australia. Our boat lay along some miles from the redoubtable bank on which Cook's vessel was lost, 10th June, 1770. The boat in which Cook was struck on a rock, and, if it did not sink, it was owing to a piece of coral that was broken ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

... the museum were the Severed Lady, who apparently was nonexistent below the waist; the Remarkable Tattooed Lady, who had been rescued from Chinese pirates in the Coral Sea, and some others. To them the tuft-nosed man was known as Bat—surmised to be a ...

— The Ape, the Idiot & Other People • W. C. Morrow

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