Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A section of the southwest Pacific Ocean northeast of New Guinea and northwest of New Britain. During World War II it was the site of a major naval battle (March 2–3, 1943) in which a Japanese convoy was almost completely destroyed.
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- noun an arm of the South Pacific to the southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago
- noun a naval battle in World War II; Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March 1943
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Examples
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Grant Jones is telling the story of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
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And with that, the Ku-band signal went racing upward through the atmosphere to the satellite hovering 22,800 miles directly over the Admiralty Islands in the Bismarck Sea.
The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000
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Originally a center for research into and treatment of tropical diseases, over the years it had been expanded and modified to serve the needs of a wide area, including and beyond the Bismarck Sea.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Originally a center for research into and treatment of tropical diseases, over the years it had been expanded and modified to serve the needs of a wide area, including and beyond the Bismarck Sea.
Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Nautilus Minerals, a small Canadian company backed by the giant mining company Anglo-American, has just received an environmental permit from the government of Papua New Guinea to conduct the world's first deep-sea mining in the vent fields of the Bismarck Sea.
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But Professor Steiner believes that success in the Bismarck Sea will provoke a "goldrush" at vent systems around the world, most of which have yet to be properly studied.
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A Japanese convoy is bombed and strafed in the Bismarck Sea.
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But Professor Steiner believes that success in the Bismarck Sea will provoke a "goldrush" at vent systems around the world, most of which have yet to be properly studied.
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A Japanese convoy is bombed and strafed in the Bismarck Sea.
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It is conducting the engineering phase of a sulphide-mining project in the Bismarck Sea, within the territorial waters of Papua New Guinea.
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