Freed from the convenience store image, it now had a romantic travel and leisure image of the South Seas.
Silversea's recently launched Prince Albert II, which goes to Antarctica and the South Seas, offers 24-hour butler service in its top cabins.
They tell of journeys to the South Seas and the frozen north, of 'worthy men' given up to whales, sharks and fever.
Now the goal is to reforge the politics, and perforce the culture, not merely of Iraq but of the billion-strong Islamic world from Morocco to the South Seas.
That year Captain James Cook set off on the Endeavour, sailing to the South Seas to chart the transit of Venus and search for what turned out to be Australia.
Together with his wife, Fanny, an American divorcee ten years his senior, he would up sticks almost yearly to live in, variously, London, Bournemouth, France, Switzerland, California, and, eventually, the South Seas.
Honorees will also be displayed at CES Unveiled: The Official Press Event of the International CES from 4-7 p.m. on Sunday, January 6 in the South Seas Ballroom C at Mandalay Bay.
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Such an outcome would give China far greater power projection in the East and South China Seas -- through which flow much of East Asia's trade, including the bulk of Japan and South Korea's oil imports.
All three nations are involved in long-running maritime disputes with China over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
All three nations named in the sign are involved in long-running maritime disputes with China over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
In early March of last year, for instance, Chinese trawlers dangerously harassed two unarmed U.S. Navy reconnaissance ships, the Victorious and the Impeccable, in the Yellow and South China Seas.
The arrival of the new vessel comes at a time when China is in dispute with a number of neighbouring countries over national boundaries in the East and South China Seas.
America's pivot to the Pacific reflects a growing strategic concern over China's rise as a military power, amid simmering disputes over Taiwan and contested islands in the south and east China seas.
During recent trips to Vietnam and Japan, India's defense minister George Fernandes struck agreements to conduct tripartite naval exercises to "work in tandem" to combat piracy across the Arabian and South China seas.
China plans to continue not just to assert but also to enforce through energy exploration and extraction its claims to disputed areas in the East China and South China Seas.
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An RNLI spokesman said the crews faced strong south-south-westerly winds and rough seas as the inshore lifeboat pulled the yacht off the rocks before the larger lifeboat took it under tow.
But China's recent claims over the mineral-rich South China, Yellow and East China seas and its aggressive patrols in vital sea lanes between the Pacific and Indian oceans have sent the not-at-all subtle message that it isn't willing to share power in its backyard.
The South Korean military said Thursday that its drills will take place in the seas southwest of Yeonpyeong Island between December 18 and 21, but bad weather forced a delay Saturday.
Our own suggestion is for governments to agree to turn the Senkakus and the seas round them along with other rocks contested by Japan and South Korea into pioneering marine protected areas.
The south-west monsoon begins towards the end of May until about August, making the seas too rough for pirates.
But for strategists grappling with the diminished safety of the world's seas off east Africa and in other perilous spots such as South-East Asia and the waters of Nigeria figuring out a sensible and workable division of labour between navies and private firms is not easy.
Bigger ships also tend to pitch and roll less in heavy seas, and they can cross the Drake Passage - which separates South America from Antarctica and can sometimes be very rough - much more quickly.
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