THALASSA

★ In Greek mythology, 'Thalassa' ("sea") was a primordial sea goddess.

★ 'Thalassa' is a moon of the planet Neptune.

★ 'Thalassa' is a fictional planet, a waterworld in Arthur C. Clarke's novel ''Songs of Distant Earth''.

★ In biology, ''Thalassa'' is a genus of ladybird beetle.

★ 'Thalassa' is title of a late poem written by Irish Poet Louis MacNeice.

★ 'Thalassa' is a notable long-running television program on the television channel France 3 that reports on all items of interest in the nautical, maritime and oceanic field.

★ 'Thalassa' is a band which represented Greece at the Eurovision Song Contest 1998.

★ 'Thalassa' is the name of an electoral ward in the City of Onkaparinga.

★ 'Panthalassa' ("all seas") was the global ocean surrounding the supercontinent Pangea.