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The Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), officially the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands (/ ˈ k oʊ k ə s /; [5] [6] Cocos Islands Malay: Pulu Kokos [Keeling]), are an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean, comprising a small archipelago approximately midway between Australia and Sri Lanka and relatively close to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
The Indian Ocean, together with the Mediterranean, has connected people since ancient times, whereas the Atlantic and Pacific have had the roles of barriers or mare incognitum. The written history of the Indian Ocean, however, has been Eurocentric and largely dependent on the availability of written sources from the European colonial era.
In Australia, the cape is considered where the Indian Ocean meets the Southern Ocean, but most other nations and bodies define the Southern Ocean as existing south of 60°S. [ 2 ] Located on headland of the cape is the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse and the buildings that were used by the lighthouse -keepers.
The Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas. The Indian Ocean, the third largest, extends northward from the Southern Ocean to India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia in Asia, and between Africa in the west and Australia in the east. The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia.
The Kerguelen Plateau (/ ˈ k ɜːr ɡ əl ən /, / k ər ˈ ɡ eɪ l ən /), [1] also known as the Kerguelen–Heard Plateau, [2] is an oceanic plateau and large igneous province (LIP) located on the Antarctic Plate, in the southern Indian Ocean. [3] It is about 3,000 km (1,900 mi) to the southwest of Australia and is nearly three times the ...
Physical map of Australia Australia on the globe with Australia's Antarctic claims hatched. Australia is a country and an island located in Oceania between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean. It shares its name with the country that claims control over it.
An officer scans the water in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia during a previous search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in 2014. ... of the most remote parts of the world ...
Heard Island is a heavily glaciated, subantarctic volcanic island located in the Southern Ocean, roughly 4,000 km (2,200 nmi) southwest of Australia. 80% of the island is covered in ice, with glaciers descending from 2,400 m (7,900 ft) to sea level. [46]