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indian ocean . every thing about indian ocean is here Indian Ocean, body of salt water, covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the world. It is the smallest, youngest, and physically most complex of the world’s three major oceans. It stretches for more than 6,200 miles ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... (10,000 km)
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- 4. [8] Persian Gulf Red Sea [9] Island nations Madagascar world's fourth largest island Comoros Seychelles Maldives Mauritius Sri Lanka Indonesia
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- 6. Rodrigues Triple Point mid-oceanic ridge shelf Mumbai India Diamantina Deep plates continental Diamantina Trench Sunda Trench [10] 50° south latitude pelagic globigerina ooze terrigenous
- 9. The Indian Ocean provides major sea routes connecting the Middle East, Africa, and East Asia with Europe and the Americas. It carries a particularly heavy traffic of petroleum and petroleum products from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf and Indonesia. Large reserves of hydrocarbons are being tapped in the offshore areas of Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and Western Australia. An estimated 40% of the world's offshore oil production comes from the Indian Ocean.[12] Beach sands rich in heavy minerals, and offshore placer deposits are actively exploited by bordering countries, particularly India, Pakistan,South Africa, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Due to the relatively high traffic of petroleum tankers, piracy off the Somali coast has been rising. This has been a threat to international shipping since the second phase of the Somali Civil War in the early 21st century.
- 10. The warmth of the Indian Ocean keeps phytoplankton production low, except along the northern fringe and in a few scattered spots elsewhere; life in the ocean is thus limited. Fishing is confined to subsistence levels, because its fish are of great and growing importance to the bordering countries for domestic consumption and export. Fishing fleets from Russia, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan also exploit the Indian Ocean, mainly for shrimp and tuna. Endangered marine species include the dugong, seals, turtles, and whales. Plastic pollution threatens the eastern coast of Mozambique Channel
- 11. The economically important Silk Road (red) and spicetrade routes (blue) were blocked by the Ottoman Empire in ca. 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. This spurred exploration, and a new sea route around Africa was found, triggering the Age of Discovery.
- 13. Culture and literature[edit] The Indian Ocean is known as Ratnakara in the ancient Sanskrit literature. Ratnakara means "the mine of gems". It's also called Hind Mahasagar in Hindi and other Indian languages.