Indien Ocean: Ocean
The Indie Ocean is the third lairgest o the warld's oceanic diveesions, coverin approximately 20% o the watter on the Yird's surface.
It is boondit bi Asie—includin Indie, efter which the ocean is named—on the north, on the wast bi Africae, on the east bi Australia, an on the sooth bi the Soothren Ocean (or, dependin on defineetion, bi Antarctica.)
As ane component o the Warld Ocean, the Indian Ocean is delineatit frae the Atlantic Ocean bi the 20° east meridian runnin sooth frae Cape Agulhas, an frae the Paceefic Ocean bi the meridian o 146°55' east. The northrenmaist extent o the Indian Ocean is approximately 30° north in the Persie Gulf. The ocean is nearly 10,000 km (6,200 mi) wide at the soothren tips o Africae an Australie, an its aurie is 73,556,000 km² (28,350,000 mi²), includin the Reid Sea an the Persie Gulf.
The ocean's volume is estimatit tae be 292,131,000 km³ (70,086,000 mi³). Smaa islands dot the continental rims. Island naitions within the ocean are Madagascar (the warld's fowert lairgest island), Comoros, Seychelles, Maldives, Mauritius, an Sri Lanka. The archipelago o Indonesie borders the ocean on the east.
References
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- NOAA In-situ Ocean Data Viewer Archived 2011-12-24 at the Wayback Machine Plot an dounload ocean observations
- The Indian Ocean in Warld History: Eddicational Wabsteid Interactive resoorce frae the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center
- The Regional Tuna Taggin Project-Indian Ocean wi details o the importance o Tuna in the Indian Ocean.. Archived 2017-09-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Detailed cairts o the Indian Ocean Archived 2011-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- The Indian Ocean Trade: A Classroom Simulation Archived 2011-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
- CIA – The Warld Factbook, Oceans: Indian Ocean Archived 2014-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
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