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In geography, an arm is a narrow extension, inlet, or smaller reach, of water flowing out from a much larger body of water, such as an ocean, a sea, or a lake. Although different geographically, a sound or bay may also be called an arm. Both the tributary and distributary of a river are sometimes called an "arm".
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]
The islands of the Indian Ocean are part of either the eastern, western, or southern areas. Some prominently large islands include Madagascar, Sri Lanka, and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, and Lesser Sunda Islands.
An arm of the sea (or sea arm) may refer to: a sea loch; an ocean arm; Arms of the Sea, a 2006 album by Celtic musician Heather Alexander; Nullah, in Hindi; Gulf of Lune, a fictitious sea arm in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy universe
Somali Sea (1 C, 11 P) T. Timor Sea (22 P) Pages in category "Seas of the Indian Ocean" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Christian commercial networks and their potential for enabling religion to spread in the Indian Ocean were to foreshadow, but not successfully parallel the later rise of Islam. [14] Some evidence is present to suggest that Indo-Mediterranean trade may have also involved a "northern route" through the Caspian Sea and Pontic–Caspian steppe. [15]
Landforms of the Indian Ocean — part of the geography of the Indian Ocean. Subcategories. ... Landforms of the Arabian Sea (3 C, 2 P) Landforms of the Persian Gulf ...
The Diamantina fracture zone (DFZ, Diamantina zone) [1] [2] [3] is an area of the south-eastern Indian Ocean seafloor, consisting of a range of ridges and trenches. [4] It lies to the south of the mideastern Indian Ocean features of the Wharton Basin and Perth Basin , and to the south west of the Naturaliste Plateau .