Indian Ocean
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| Area | 7056 |
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| Max. depth | 7,258 m (23,812 ft) |
| Coordinates | 20°S 80°E / 20°S 80°E Coordinates: 20°S 80°E / 20°S 80°E |
| Max. width | Africa |
| Australia | |
| Islands | Praslin |
| Diego Garcia | |
| Kerguelen Islands | |
| Java | |
| Did you know | The average temperature of the Indian Ocean is around 22 degrees Celsius/ 71 degrees Fahrenheit. |
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| ID | 1003297 |
About Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km². It is bounded by Asia on the north, on the west by Africa, on the east by Australia, and on the south by the Southern Ocean or, depending on definition, by Antarctica.
Blue whales: Ocean giants return to 'safe' tropical haven
...By Victoria Gill and Kate StephensScience team, BBC NewsBlue whales - the largest known animals on Earth - are making their home in a part of the Indian Ocean where they were wiped out by whaling decades ago...
Criminals and sanctions-busters exploiting UK secrecy loophole
... The investigation by the BBC, Finance Uncovered and the Seychelles Broadcasting Corporation has analysed internal Alpha documents and thousands of company records to identify some of the people who secretly benefitted from the work of the offshore firm, based in the island nation in the Indian Ocean...
EX-PM Truss wanted stranded migrants brought to UK
...By Alice CuddyBBC NewsEx-PM Liz Truss called for asylum seekers stranded on a tiny British territory in the Indian Ocean to be brought to the UK for their own safety...
China's Belt and Road Initiative: Kenya and a railway to nowhere
... They have travelled non-stop from the port city of Mombasa, 470km (290 miles) away on the Indian Ocean...
Maldives: The presidential poll with India and China on the ballot
... The island nation which consists of about 1,200 coral islands and atolls in the middle of the Indian Ocean will see a run-off poll between President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and opposition candidate Mohamed Muizzu on 30 September...
Andrew Harding: A fond farewell to an uneasy South Africa
... Last week a woman and her three children were reportedly found dead in their tiny shack close to the Indian Ocean in the Eastern Cape...
The return of cargo-carrying sail ships
... And there are still vestiges of [historic] sail cargo systems - for example, the Dhows of the Indian Ocean, and some small vessels in operation in areas of the South Pacific...
Isro: India space chief says no mystery over rocket debris on Australian beach
... But aviation experts soon clarified that the item couldn t have come from a commercial aircraft and that it was possibly a fuel tank from a rocket that had fallen into the Indian Ocean at some stage...
