What did he care for Spain and its cities, Cordova, Toledo, Leon; what to him were the pagodas of Burmah and the lagoons of South
Sea Islands? America was here and now.
Had she, she might readily have been forgiven for abandoning the last vestige of hope, for to the people of Helium Torquas seems as remote as do the South
Sea Islands to us.
She had correspondences with clerical gentlemen in most of our East and West India possessions; and was secretly attached to the Reverend Silas Hornblower, who was tattooed in the South
Sea Islands.
Gone were the Morris papers and gone the severe cretonnes, gone were the Arundel prints that had adorned the walls of her drawingroom in Ashley Gardens; the room blazed with fantastic colour, and I wondered if she knew that those varied hues, which fashion had imposed upon her, were due to the dreams of a poor painter in a South
Sea island. She gave me the answer herself.
'For the love of goodness, child,' exclaimed my aunt, 'don't call the woman by that South
Sea Island name!
Some Manchester chaps said it was as good as any
Sea Island cotton on the market."
China claims naming South China
Sea islands with English names !-- -- Patricia Lourdes Viray (Philstar.com) - June 4, 2019 - 12:40pm MANILA, Philippines Distancing itself from the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Beijing insisted that artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea have been named a long time ago.
Manila: The presidential palace expressed concern over the possibility that China would be setting up nuclear stations to power its military installations in the South China
Sea islands.
"The South China
Sea islands are part of the territory of (Taiwan)," MOFA spokesman Andrew Lee told CNA.
Navy warships sailed near South China
Sea islands claimed by China on Sunday, two U.S.
Chinese media: Tough US line on South China
Sea islands would risk war
REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh CAIRO -- 4 March 2018: The Supreme Constitutional Court officially turned down the curtains on the Red
Sea Islands Transfer Pact between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, per which Cairo announced Saudi sovereignty on the disputed islands, to put an end to a two-year judiciary battle.