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Also see: South Pacific (musical).

South Pacific refers to an area in the southern Pacific Ocean or a group, film or musical. The term may refer to:

• Australasia: area including Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and other islands (east part of Indonesia);
• Oceania, a geographical (often geopolitical) region of many countries/territories (mostly islands) in the southern Pacific Ocean.

Strictly taken it is the part of the Pacific Ocean area south of the equator bordered by Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, the 60th south latitude, the west coast of South America and the equator. South of the 60° latitude, it is called the Southern Ocean.

• South Pacific (musical), the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
• South Pacific (2001 film), a television production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical
• Southpacific, a post-rock band
• South Pacific (song), a song by The Verve from their Voyager 1 album.
• "South Pacific Area", one of three Pacific Ocean Areas in World War II
• South West Pacific Area, a military command/theatre of World War II
• South East Pacific Area, a military command/theatre of World War II

• "South Pacific Trade Commission", former name of the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission, an organization set up to contribute to the sustainable economic advancement of the Pacific Islands Forum countries by promoting trade and investment with Australia
• South Pacific Commission, former name of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
• South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
• South Pacific Television, New Zealand
• South Pacific Tourism Organisation, an intergovernmental body for the tourism sector in the South Pacific
• University of the South Pacific, with campuses on Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other centres
• "South Pacific Programme" of the World Wildlife Fund
• Solidarity South Pacific, an environmental solidarity organization that seeks to unite environmental causes across the South Pacific
• South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society, an organization dedicated to all aspects of underwater and hyperbaric medicine.
• South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, one of the 13 world divisions of the church

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