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The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km 2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface. [4] It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east.
The Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) is a gravity anomaly in the Indian Ocean. A circular region in the Earth's geoid, situated just south of the Indian peninsula, it is the Earth's largest gravity anomaly. [1] [2] It forms a depression in the sea level covering an area of about 3 million km 2 (1.2 million sq mi), almost the size of India itself.
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.
Salomon Atoll is one of the many above water features of the Chagos Archipelago The Chagos Archipelago is a hotspot of biodiversity in the Indian Ocean. The main natural resources of the area are coconuts and fish. The licensing of commercial fishing used to provide an annual income of about US$2 million for the British Indian Ocean Territory ...
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean. The world's largest bay, [citation needed] geographically it is positioned between the Indian subcontinent and the Indochinese peninsula, located below the Bengal region. Many South Asian and Southeast Asian countries are dependent on the Bay of Bengal.
The golf courses in Mauritius are surrounded by glistening ocean, mangrove trees and lush jungle (Finn Partners Box UK) If it be true that golf is a good walk spoiled, then the walk in Mauritius ...
Geography of the Indian Ocean. Locator map of the Indian Ocean. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. ...
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