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Western Indian Ocean. Bajuni Islands (Somalia) Bazaruto Archipelago (Mozambique) Chagos Archipelago (including Diego Garcia) (UK transitioning to Mauritius) Comoros. Khuriya Muriya Islands (Oman) Lakshadweep Archipelago (India) Lamu Archipelago (Kenya) Madagascar.
The islands constitute one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau (the other being Heard Island and the McDonald islands), a large igneous province mostly submerged in the southern Indian Ocean. The main island, Grande Terre, is 6,675 km 2 (2,577 sq mi) in area, about three-quarters of the size of Corsica, and is surrounded by a ...
Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Coordinates. 49°15′S 69°10′E / 49.25°S 69.17°E / -49.25; 69.17. Conservation. Conservation status. Critical/endangered. Protected. 0 km 2 (0%) [1] The Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra is a tundra ecoregion that includes several subantarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean.
The territory includes the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands in the southern Indian Ocean near 43°S, 67°E, along with Adélie Land, the sector of Antarctica claimed by France. Adélie Land, named by the French explorer Jules Dumont d’Urville after his wife, covers about 432,000 km 2 (167,000 sq mi).
The Prince Edward Islands are two small uninhabited volcanic islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean that are administered by South Africa.They are named Marion Island (named after Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, 1724–1772) and Prince Edward Island (named after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, 1767–1820).
List of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Indian Ocean. This list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Indian Ocean consists of 38 countries, with 13 in Africa, 22 in Asia, and 1 in Oceania that either border on or are in the Indian Ocean, as well as 2 European countries which administer several dependencies or ...
Île Saint-Paul (Saint Paul Island) is an island forming part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (French: Terres australes et antarctiques françaises, TAAF) in the Indian Ocean, with an area of 6 km 2 (2.3 sq mi; 1,500 acres). The island is located about 90 km (56 mi) south of the larger Île Amsterdam (55 km 2 (21 sq mi)), 1,300 ...
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth was discovered in the Indian Ocean off South Africa in the 1930s and in the late 1990s another species, the Indonesian coelacanth, was discovered off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Most extant coelacanths have been found in the Comoros.