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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.
Coordinates: 2°N 76°E. 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 Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India, about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
The Houtman Abrolhos (often called the Abrolhos Islands) is a chain of 122 islands and associated coral reefs in the Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Geraldton, Western Australia. It is the southernmost true coral reef in the Indian Ocean, and one of the highest latitude reef systems in the world.
Southeast Indian Ridge. Coordinates: 47.346294°S 97.396675°E. The Southeast Indian Ridge (denoted by the yellow line) The Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) is a mid-ocean ridge in the southern Indian Ocean. A divergent tectonic plate boundary stretching almost 6,000 km (3,700 mi) between the Rodrigues triple junction (25°S 70°E) in the Indian ...
Coordinates: 35°S 104°E. Diamantina Fracture Zone marked in red. 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 ...
Wharton Basin is the marine area of the north east quarter of the Indian Ocean. It is named after William Wharton (1843–1905), Hydrographer of the Navy. Alternative names are Cocos Basin (after the Cocos Islands) and West Australian Basin. [1] It lies east of the Ninety East Ridge and west of Western Australia.
Indian Ocean laea relief location map.jpg. Module:Location map/data/Indian Ocean is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Indian Ocean. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.