Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

Bead tree seeds are the necklaces of South Pacific islanders and the eyes of Buddha dolls in Cuba.

* Pearl of the South Pacific ( 1955 )

The group includes eight genera and about 85 species distributed in the temperate zones of Europe and Asia, Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Africa and the Pacific, from Australia and New Zealand to South America.

Due to its positioning in the South Pacific Ocean, it is frequently hit by typhoons between December and March.

* American Samoa ( IOC country code ), an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa ( formerly known as Western Samoa )

* 1947 – Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.

* 1971 – The first Pacific Islands Forum ( then known as the " South Pacific Forum ") is held in Wellington, New Zealand, with the aim of enhancing cooperation between the independent countries of the Pacific Ocean.

close to vital sea lanes through South China Sea linking Indian and Pacific Oceans ; two parts physically separated by Malaysia ; almost an enclave within Malaysia

* Banda Sea, the sea of the South Moluccas in Indonesia, a part of the Pacific Ocean

* Bloody Mary ( South Pacific ), a character in a book

There are at least three distinct subspecies: B. m. musculus of the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia of the Southern Ocean and B. m. brevicauda ( also known as the pygmy blue whale ) found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean.

Authorities classify the species into three or four subspecies: B. m. musculus, the northern blue whale consisting of the North Atlantic and North Pacific populations, B. m. intermedia, the southern blue whale of the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda, the pygmy blue whale found in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific, and the more problematic B. m. indica, the great Indian rorqual, which is also found in the Indian Ocean and, although described earlier, may be the same subspecies as B. m. brevicauda.

When Bixby was eight, his father enlisted in the U. S. Navy during World War II and traveled to the South Pacific.

In many island nations such as those of the Mediterranean, South Pacific and Caribbean, tourism is central to the economy.

Chile ( or ), officially the Republic of Chile (,, Mapudungun: Gulumapu ), is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

After defeating Peru and Bolivia, Chile dominated the Pacific Coast of South America.

Chile also wanted to become the dominant South American military and commercial power along the Pacific.

The main highland cities in the country's Central Valley are connected by paved all-weather roads with the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by the Pan American Highway with Nicaragua and Panama, the neighboring countries to the North and the South.

He was elected President of the South African Baptist Union in 1949 and spent a year visiting churches and mission stations.

The line of emperors came to an end with Bảo Đại, who was deposed after the war, although he later served as head of state of South Vietnam from 1949 to 1955.

* 1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales

* 1949 – Clive Rice, South African cricketer

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

He was born at the Miami Seaquarium on and came to the South Florida Museum in Bradenton, Florida in 1949.

The consolidation of Syngman Rhee's government in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Stalinist revolution in the South, and from early 1949 Kim sought Soviet and Chinese support for a military campaign to reunify the country by force.

The withdrawal of most U. S. forces from South Korea in June 1949 left the southern government defended only by a weak and inexperienced South Korean army.

Initially, the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin rejected Kim's requests for permission to invade the South, but in late 1949 the Communist victory in China and the development of Soviet nuclear weapons made him re-consider Kim's proposal.

* 1855 – Newfoundland ( suspended from 1934 to 1949 ), the State of New South Wales, and the State of Victoria

Demand for land reform in the South grew strong ; the land reform act was enacted in June 1949 whereby Koreans with large landholdings were obliged to divest most of their land.

In the first official census, taken in 1949, the total population of South Korea was calculated at 20, 188, 641 people.

Republic of China – South Korea relations date back to 4 January 1949, four months after the formal establishment of the South Korean government, when the Republic of China set up an embassy in Seoul's Myeongdong district.

The 1940s saw huge change in South Asia with the Partition of India in 1947 ( resulting in the establishment of the two new states of India and Pakistan ), and the establishment of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in 1949.

She appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, opening on April 7, 1949 as nurse Nellie Forbush.

* South Pacific ( 1949 ) ( Broadway )

* 1949 – The University of Pretoria in South Africa founded the oldest business school in Africa and was the first university to offer an MBA outside of North America.

In 1949, the Union passed a law bringing South-West Africa into closer association with it including giving South-West Africa representation in the South African parliament.

He served three terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1949 to 1954.

The team went on to create four more hits that are among the most popular of all musicals and were each made into successful films: Carousel ( 1945 ), South Pacific ( 1949, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama ), The King and I ( 1951 ), and The Sound of Music ( 1959 ).

* South Pacific ( 1949 )

* 1949 North and South Open, West Virginia Open