Indian Ocean

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Indian Ocean

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the Indian Ocean

1. 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.

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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.