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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.
Toggle Indian Ocean subsection. ... Mulga Islands; North East Isles; Nuyts Archipelago; ... List of archipelagos by number of islands; List of islands by name;
Archipelagoes of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (2 C, 16 P) Archipelagoes of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (3 C, 3 P) Archipelagoes of the Maldives (1 P)
The Cheduba group of islands, in the north-east, off the Burmese coast, are remarkable for a chain of mud volcanoes, which are occasionally active. [40] Great Andaman is the main archipelago or island group of the Andaman Islands, whereas Ritchie's Archipelago consists of smaller islands. Only 37, or 6.5%, of the 572 islands and islets of the ...
The Andaman Archipelago is an oceanic continuation of the Burmese Arakan Yoma range in the north and of the Indonesian Archipelago in the south. It has 325 islands which cover an area of 6,408 km 2 (2,474 sq mi), [39] with the Andaman Sea to the east between the islands and the coast of Burma. [13]
Indian Ocean, Australasia Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Archipelago Oceanic Australia: 14 5.4 596 42.6 110 Indian Ocean, Australasia Curaçao: One main island (central island of the ABC Islands) Continental shelf Netherlands: 444 171 145,834 328 850 Caribbean Sea, Lesser Antilles Easter Island: One main island: Oceanic Chile: 163.6 63.2 6,148 37.5 97
The Chagos Archipelago. (Atolls with areas of dry land are named in green)The archipelago is about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives, 1,880 kilometres (1,170 mi) east of the Seychelles, 1,680 kilometres (1,040 mi) north-east of Rodrigues Island (), 2,700 kilometres (1,700 mi) west of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and 3,400 kilometres (2,100 mi) north of Amsterdam Island.
Flower, M.F.J., Rare earth element distribution in lavas and ultramafic xenoliths from the Comores archipelago, western Indian Ocean Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 31 (4) 345-346 1971 Flower, M.F.J., R N Thompson, One-atmosphere melting and crystallization relations of lavas from Anjouan Comores Archipelago western Indian Ocean Earth ...