The Koro Sea or Sea of Koro is a
sea
The sea, connected as the world ocean or simply the ocean, is the body of salty water that covers approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. The word sea is also used to denote second-order sections of the sea, such as the Mediterranean Sea, ...
in the
Pacific Ocean between
Viti Levu island,
Fiji to the west and the
Lau Islands
The Lau Islands aka little Tonga (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean, just east of the Koro Sea. Of this chain of about sixty islands and islets, about thirty a ...
to the east, surrounded by the islands of the Fijian archipelago.
It is named after
Koro Island
Koro (village in Fijian) is a volcanic island of Fiji that forms part of the Lomaiviti Archipelago. The Koro Sea is named after this volcanic island, which has a chain of basaltic cinder cones extending from north to south along its crest. W ...
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Seas of the Pacific Ocean
Bodies of water of Fiji
Seas of Oceania
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