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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

... 2 we had fared 11,340 miles, hence 5,250 leagues, from our starting point in the seas of Japan. Before the Nautilus's spur there stretched the dangerous waterways of the Coral Sea, off the northeast coast of Australia. Our boat cruised along a few miles away from that daunting shoal where Captain Cook's ships wellnigh miscarried on June 10, 1770. The craft that Cook was ...

— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne

... 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 ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

... past in characters Of rock and fire the scroll, The building in the coral sea, The ...

— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... of miles in every direction. In placing this emphasis on the Battle of Midway, I am not unmindful of other successful actions in the Pacific, in the air and on land and afloat—especially those on the Coral Sea and New Guinea and in the Solomon Islands. But these actions were essentially defensive. They were part of the delaying strategy that characterized this phase of ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

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