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Geographic Locations > Oceans and Seas > Indian Ocean
Physical Phenomena > Geological Phenomena > Oceans and Seas > Indian Ocean
... > Environment and Public Health > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Indian Ocean
... > Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Saline Waters > Seawater > Oceans and Seas > Indian Ocean

Preferred term

Indian Ocean  

Type

  • Geographical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Persian Gulf
  • Red Sea

Scope note

  • A body of water covering approximately one-fifth of the total ocean area of the earth, extending amidst Africa in the west, Australia in the east, Asia in the north, and Antarctica in the south. Including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, it constitutes the third largest ocean after the ATLANTIC OCEAN and the PACIFIC OCEAN. (New Encyclopaedia Britannica Micropaedia, 15th ed, 1990, p289)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D019156

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