Indian Ocean
an ocean south of Asia, east of Africa, and west of Australia, with its deepest section in the Java Trench. 27,243,268 square miles (70,560,000 square kilometers).
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How to use Indian Ocean in a sentence
The area of the Indian Ocean left to be searched for Flight 370 is vast—more than 23,000 square miles.
Awful but True: Pings Were Not From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | Clive Irving | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt also raises the question of why more appropriate resources were not sent to the Indian Ocean sooner.
Awful but True: Pings Were Not From Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 | Clive Irving | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan.
Everyone on board knew that a Malaysian Airlines flight had been missing, and all were presumed dead in the Indian Ocean.
Do You Suffer From Smartphone Anxiety? (And if So, What the Hell’s Your Problem?) | Melissa Fares | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDays were wasted searching the South China Sea, not the Indian Ocean.
The Worst Place in the World for MH370 to Go Missing | Clive Irving | April 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The Indian Ocean, meanwhile, swarmed with pirates of whose rapacity and cruelty frightful stories were told.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayAfter some days we were in the Indian Ocean, plowing lazily along and counting the hours until we reached Mombasa.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheonThese Indian Ocean steamers are usually filled with an interesting lot of passengers.
In Africa | John T. McCutcheonI have spoken of the abundance and variety of the epiphytous plants which grow profusely in the islands of the Indian Ocean.
The Desert World | Arthur ManginThe Papuan races likewise wandered far across the Indian Ocean.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
British Dictionary definitions for Indian Ocean
an ocean bordered by Africa in the west, Asia in the north, and Australia in the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean in the south. Average depth: 3900 m (13 000 ft). Greatest depth (off the Sunda Islands): 7450 m (24 442 ft). In December 2004 a major undersea earthquake off Sumatra triggered a tsunami which affected large areas of the ocean as far away as east Africa, and killed an estimated 226 435 people. Area: about 73 556 000 sq km (28 400 000 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Indian Ocean
Third-largest ocean (after the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean), extending from southern Asia to Antarctica and from eastern Africa to southeastern Australia.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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