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Indian Ocean

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Indian Ocean
A body of water extending from southern Asia to Antarctica and from eastern Africa to southeast Australia.
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Noun1.Indian OceanIndian Ocean - the 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
Ceylon - an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India
Comoro Islands, Iles Comores - three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar
Madagascar - an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world
Maldive Islands, Maldives - a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean
Mauritius - an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
Seychelles islands, Seychelles - a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar
Antarctic Ocean - the southern waters surrounding Antarctica
Arabian Sea - a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia
Bay of Bengal - an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India
Gulf of Aden - arm of the Indian Ocean at the entrance to the Red Sea
Mozambique Channel - an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa
Red Sea - a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal
Timor Sea - an arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia
Translations
Indian Ocean n the Indian Ocean → el Océano Índico, el Mar de las Indias
Indian Ocean n the Indian Ocean → l'océan Indien
Indian Ocean India n the Indian Ocean → der Indische Ozean
Indian Ocean n the Indian Ocean → l'Oceano Indiano


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the Mongolia slowly moved out of the roadstead, and was soon once more on the Indian Ocean.
All the animals from here to the Indian Ocean are talking about this wonderful man, and how he can cure any kind of sickness, and how kind he is--the only man in the whole world who can talk the language of the animals
Even at this day, if the Malay Archipelago were converted into land, the tropical parts of the Indian Ocean would form a large and perfectly enclosed basin, in which any great group of marine animals might be multiplied; and here they would remain confined, until some of the species became adapted to a cooler climate, and were enabled to double the southern capes of Africa or Australia, and thus reach other and distant seas.
 
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