An arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia.
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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.
... more extensively developed than usual. The "death's head" staring from beneath the dome-shaped back gives to the animal a most gruesome aspect. These details are supplied by the master of a beche-de-mer schooner, to whom all the nooks and corners of the Great Barrier Reef and of the other Coral Sea beyond, from New Guinea to New Caledonia, are familiar. He says that the species, as far as his observation goes, is confined to the neighbourhood of one group of islands. To others this is known as the "bastard tortoiseshell." The back is not actually seamless, but age causes the plates to ... — The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
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