South Pacific
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South Pacific may refer to:
Places
- Australasia, a region of Oceania, including New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
- Sub-equatorial Oceania, a region centered on the islands of the southern Pacific Ocean
- South Pacific Ocean, the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, usually the area south of the equator
Arts and entertainment
- South Pacific, 1943 Broadway stage play written by Howard Rigsby and Dorothy Heyward and staged by Lee Strasberg
- South Pacific (musical), 1949 musical play by Rodgers and Hammerstein
- South Pacific in Hi-Fi, 1958 album of jazz interpretations of the above music by the Chico Hamilton Quintet
- South Pacific (Decca album), 1949 album featuring Bing Crosby
- South Pacific (1958 film), adaptation of the 1949 musical play
- South Pacific (soundtrack), soundtrack of the 1958 film
- South Pacific (2001 film), television production of the 1949 musical play
- South Pacific (TV series), 2009 BBC nature documentary series for television
Organisations
- South Pacific Airlines of New Zealand, operating from 1960 to 1966
- South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission, an inter-governmental regional organisation dedicated to providing services to promote sustainable development
- South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists, one of the 13 world divisions of the church
- South Pacific Television, a former New Zealand broadcasting company
- South Pacific Tourism Organisation, an inter-governmental body for the tourism sector
- University of the South Pacific, with campuses on Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other centres
- South Pacific Commission, former name of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- South Pacific Trade Commission, former name of the Pacific Islands Trade and Investment Commission
Military
- South Pacific Area, a multinational U.S.-led military command active during World War II
- South West Pacific theatre of World War II, a theatre of the war between the Allies and Japan
Other uses
- Southpacific, a former space rock band from Canada
- "South Pacific", a song on the Voyager 1 live EP by The Verve
See also
- Tales of the South Pacific, a 1946 fiction book by James A. Michener
- Survivor: South Pacific, the 23rd season of the American reality TV show Survivor
- Pacific Ocean Areas (command)
- Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
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