Show k 1 south seas the pacific ocean was wae for formerly merli known as tile alie south sea due to the fact fact that vasco insco nunez de balboa spanish governor of darien first saw it in 1513 1313 when looking southward rd tie ile named gained it el mer bler del sur or the sea of tile hie south almost from tile the however lio wever the english used tile he term in the plural form and ap illel it to all the waters of nf the south rn hemisphere in 1528 only 15 nr ar offer balboa first beheld the ratio thorne wrote to henry vill as follows Vent lil they come to thee south seas of tile the indie Occident all in english literature south seas refers especially to unit that part of ocean south ol of the equator the south sea S oa a islands Is a general term designating the more an and less civilized islands in ID that region exchange Err hange |