The Greek word aphros means “foam,” and Hesiod relates in his Theogony that Aphrodite was born from the white foam produced by the severed genitals of Uranus (Heaven), after his son Cronus threw them into the sea.
It would be the "Midway Atoll" that is is south of the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and this was the location of one of the most pivotal battles between the US and Japan in World War II.
