South Pacific
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South Pacific may refer to:
Geography
- Australasia, a region of Oceania, including New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
- Oceania, a geographical, often geopolitical, region consisting of numerous lands – mostly islands in the Pacific Ocean and vicinity, usually including Micronesia, Melanesia and Polynesia
- The southern part of the Pacific Ocean, usually the area south of the equator
Media
Artists and performers
- Southpacific, a former space rock band from Canada
Works
- South Pacific (1943), Broadway stage play written by Howard Rigsby and Dorothy Heyward and staged by Lee Strasberg, with music by Paul Bowles
- South Pacific (musical) (1949), a musical play by Rodgers and Hammerstein
- South Pacific (1958 film) (1958), an adaptation of the 1949 musical play
- South Pacific (soundtrack), soundtrack of the 1958 film
- South Pacific (2001 film) (2001), a television production of the 1949 musical play
- South Pacific (TV series) (2009), a BBC nature documentary series for television
- Survivor: South Pacific, the 23rd season of the American reality TV show Survivor
- Tales of the South Pacific (1946), a fiction book by James A. Michener
Public life
- South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand, operated from 1960 to 1966
- South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, an inter-governmental regional organisation dedicated to providing services to promote sustainable development
- South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, one of the 13 world divisions of the church
- South Pacific Television, a former New Zealand broadcasting company
- South Pacific Tourism Organisation, an inter-governmental body for the tourism sector
- University of the South Pacific, with campuses on Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other centres
- South Pacific Commission, now known as the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- South Pacific Trade Commission, now known as the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission
World War II
- South Pacific Area (SOPAC), a multinational U.S.-led military command active during World War II
- South West Pacific theatre of World War II
See also
- Pacific Ocean Areas (command)
- Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
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