Indian Ocean
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Indian Ocean
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- The ocean separating Africa, southern Asia, Australia and Antarctica.
- 1970, Joseph B. R. Whitney, China: Area, Administration, and Nation Building, Department of Geography, University of Chicago, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:
- In the west, the outer periphery of the Inner Zone is the great divide separating Pacific Ocean and South China Sea drainage on the one hand, from drainage oriented towards Hsin-chiang in the northwest and towards the Indian Ocean in the southwest, on the other.
Translations
the ocean separating Africa, southern Asia, Australia and Antarctica
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See also
- (oceans) ocean; Antarctic Ocean/Southern Ocean, Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, (Category: en:Oceans)
Further reading
- “Indian Ocean”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “Indian Ocean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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