Other than the US Navy, the Indian Navy has emerged as the most formidable maritime force in the Indian Ocean, Ashok Mehta, a retired Indian Army general said.
The Chagos Islands of the Indian Ocean are a military zone, too.
Multivariate Quantile Regression on Habitat Suitability Index of Thunnus obesus in the Indian Ocean
Main species caught by tuna longline fisheries and their distribution in the Indian Ocean
The sandy, white beaches stretch all the way along two coasts, one on the Indian Ocean, one on the Atlantic Ocean, with something to occupy everyone.
The capital of Seychelles, on the northeast coast of Mah Island on the Indian Ocean. Population, 23, 000.
India s Maritime Strategy and the Cooperation and Contradiction between India and America on the Indian Ocean;
"Look," said the herring, "I've swum through the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Java Sea, the Coral Sea, the Great Pacific Ocean, the Siberian Sea, and the frozen Arctic."
And December marked one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than two hundred thousand people.
From there he proceeded to the East Indies (Indonesia) and across the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa.
We learn from the business week that your company is now operating a container service of the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean route
The oppressive heat of the Deccan plateau has moved over the Indian Ocean, leaving a subcontinent with a pleasantly cool north and a languorously warm south.
In fact, Indians also drink coffee. Coffee began in Ethiopia and spread to the Middle East and India along the Indian Ocean, much earlier than tea to Britain.
One Florida based outfit, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, is searching for antifungal compounds in a coral-encrusted black sponge found in the Indian Ocean.
Scientists found more than 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar but a political crisis is hurting conservation of the Indian Ocean island's unique wildlife, a study showed.
The biggest difficulty is that by squeezing the pirates hard in the Gulf of Aden the naval task forces have created a “balloon effect”, spreading attacks out to the middle of the Indian Ocean.
The Persian Gulf (known to the Arabs as the Arabian Gulf) is the shallow marginal sea of the Indian Ocean that lies between the Arabian Peninsula and southeast Iran.
The new Soviet missile capability in Afghanistan is seen as "a counterweight to the American presence in Diego Garcia ", the U. S. base in the Indian Ocean , the Press Trust of India reported.
In his role as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Roger will visit Tamil Nadu, India- the country's hardest hit state- to mark the two-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami on Friday.
A scientific team in California used unmanned aircraft to measure heat in the atmosphere above the Indian Ocean, a part of Asia often blanketed by brown clouds of man-made pollution.
Defense Minister Stephen Smith says it is also important to ensure Australia is prepared to respond to security challenges and natural disasters across the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific region.
voyaging across the Indian Ocean,through space
A region of southeast Africa on the Indian Ocean.
But from the populated parts of the Indian Ocean archipelago the news is more worrying.
This species is found in coastal waters around the Indian Ocean.
ABSTRACT: South Africa, located in the southern tip of Africa, is the only country that borders both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
It is bounded by the Tasman Sea to the southeast and by the Indian Ocean to the west and southwest.
Defence ties with African states bordering the Indian Ocean could boost the fight against terrorism and piracy.
Through multilateral and other channels, China has donated nearly 1.3 billion RMB to the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster-hit ries.
For Arab countries the dhow has been the workhorse of the Indian Ocean, just as the junk has been for the Chinese in Southeast Asia.
Over the centuries, the islands have been visited and their development influenced by sailors from countries on the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean littorals.
The strategic ties with Maldives and Seychelles will give India a firmer foothold on the Indian Ocean rim, said independent defense analyst Mahindra singh, a retired Indian Army major general.
China's projection of maritime power, especially into the Indian Ocean, has raised national security concerns in New Delhi, which has raised the incident with Beijing.
A herbivorous marine mammal(Dugong dugon, native to tropical coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and southwest Pacific Ocean and having flipperlike forelimbs and a deeply notched tail fin.
He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean, and the vast cisterns where the English engineers were still at work, two thousand years after the engineers of Solomon.
Socotra is a small Yemeni archipelago of four islands and islets in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Horn of Africa, about 350 kilometers south of the Arabian peninsula.
The malevolent earthquake and tsunami in Japan have jolted our minds back to the 2004 catastrophe in the Indian Ocean, as well as to last year's tsunamis in Chile and Sumatra.
The Indians are afraid that China's reason for building ports in Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and conducting naval exercises with Pakistan, is to extend its dominance into the Indian Ocean.
"With Bleaching, the warmer water forces out the algae that give coral its color and, f all are lost, the coral dies and the reef will crumble. In 1988, 16 percent of the world's coral died, with 46 percent of the Indian Ocean coral destroyed."
On the west it faces the Atlantic Ocean and on the east it faces the Indian Ocean.
The British navy, which had held hegemony for two centuries, disappeared in the Indian Ocean.
The Indian subcontinent detaching itself from Antarctica and sweeping across the Indian Ocean to its violent collision with Asia's landmass across the Himalayas;
Their effect may be merely to shift the problem from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean.
Another tense moment occurred in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia, where the Intrepid was approached by a suspected pirate boat.
A river of southern Ethiopia and southern Somalia flowing about1, 609km(1, 000mi)to the Indian Ocean.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Ranger left San Diego, California, to sail into the Indian Ocean, relieving the USS Kennedy.
Sandwiched between "integrity" and "inept" is a cluster of words obviously plucked from the headlines, such as "tsunami," after one ravaged countries along the Indian Ocean last December.
Charity Champion lost 300 coconut and areca nut trees when towering waves slammed into the Indian Ocean archipelago on December 26.
As you close in on the point where the Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean the race will be almost over, the wind can die off leaving a nail biting finish to a 3,500 nautical mile race.
As for Earth changes - they are here and will escalate especially after the Tsunami &Earthquake 2004underwater earthquake in the Indian Ocean and resulting tsunami of 12/26/2004 which cracked the tectonic plates.
And yet despite the incredible odds, one of history's longest chains of virus transmission, dating back at least 3,000 years, was broken in a small harbour on the Indian Ocean more than 30 years ago.
The bathyscaphe has plumbed the depth of the Indian Ocean.
On strengthening the control of public crises--a reflection on the tsunami in the Indian Ocean;
India is voicing concerns about China's growing influence in the Indian Ocean region.
The decline is seen in most parts of the world, one marked exception being the Indian Ocean.
In service to Ming emperor Zhu Di, Zheng's Treasure Fleet conducted widespread trade and diplomacy throughout the Indian Ocean.
Russian warships from the Pacific and Black Sea fleets have left port to begin a long-planned deployment into the Indian Ocean, culminating in a major exercise with the Indian Navy early next month.
We were hit by an earthquake on the Indian Ocean seabed. The diving car broke down and had to hide in a life-sustaining device.
The Gulf, which links the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, is the shortest route from Asia to Europe and is one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
53-year-old Capt Richard Phillips, the 1st American taken captive, had been taken hostage since April 8 as the pirates tried to hijack the Maersk Alabama cargo ship in the Indian Ocean.
British sea captain who turned to piracy after being hired to protect British ships in the Indian Ocean(1696.His cruelty and undiscovered buried treasure, although unsubstantiated, remain legendary.
Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
She went on safari out of Nairobi, and swam in the Indian Ocean.
The red sea had long since been crossed, and the ship was now on its way over the Indian Ocean;
Hidden in the Takamaka forest at the northern tip of the island, Villa 11 sits on a private beach and offers incredible views of the Indian Ocean.
In addition to an increase in flooding, sea-level rise could also result in the permanent flooding of low-lying small island states in the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
The warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean are doing so under the legal framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Security Council resolutions.
Many in his party regret the knock to Japan's international standing from the leadership crisis, and do not want to make matters worse by ordering Japan's navy back from the Indian Ocean.
If you look at the Indian Ocean, it's fascinating.
Indian navy needs to take proactive ste ps to counter and contain the Chinese navy and deny them free run in the Indian Ocean rim.
It is feared that the killer waves may have killed or displaced rare sea turtles in the Indian Ocean.
This land nourished by the atmosphere of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean can experience a distant, lasting and vast beauty in the sweet air every step of the way.
This big ship here was the one sailed in by Zheng he in the early 15th century on his great voyages around the South China Sea, the East China Sea and across the Indian Ocean to East Africa.
It was the biggest quake to shake the Earth in 40 years, and it caused waves up to 10m high to sweep across the Indian Ocean in all directions—striking some heavily populated tourist spots, such as the Thai resort of Phuket, at the height of the holiday season.
The tsunami, triggered by an earthquake off Indonesia, left300,000 dead in countries around the Indian Ocean.
Limitation to and Promotion of Indo-American Bilateral Relations by Indo-American Power Games in the Indian Ocean;
A Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).
Dusk dolphin tour is good, can not only saw herds of wild dolphins and dolphins cheerful caper, still can enjoy the Indian Ocean sunset and the moon rises process.
Followed by the West Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Bay of Bengal coast, and the Red Sea into the Indian Ocean along the Gulf of Aden near Somalia's territorial waters.
The northwest part of the Indian Ocean between Arabia and western India. It has long been an important trade route between India and the West.
From the13 th to the16 th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in gold, silver, pearls, perfumes, Arabian crockery, Persian earthenware and Chinese porcelain; much of the trade in the Indian Ocean thus passed through their hands.
The Portuguese were well fitted for the leadership of a European effort to exploit the trade of the Indian Ocean.
The shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden, to Somalia's north, and the Indian Ocean, to the east of the lawless country, are among the busiest in the world.
The dodo only lived on a small island in the Indian Ocean centuries ago.
The Red Sea was long past, and the boats were sailing over the Indian Ocean, but the sun was still setting and rising sooner or later, occupying most of the night.
The laws of economics can appear perverse in the face of human tragedy, and this seems particularly the case where the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster is concerned.
At the outset in Broome, on a sunset-bathed Cable Beach, Western Australia had seemed defined by the Indian Ocean.
Between the Indian Ocean and jungle of Bali's southern Bukit Peninsula, Karma Kandara has a sea-view spa and gourmet dining.
The carrier owned by Qingdao Ocean Shipping Company was hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean on October 19.
"The distance between the earthquake in the Indian Ocean and the location where submarine struck whatever it is that it struck is about the distance across Australia," he said. "It's a tremendous amount of distance so there's no indication that the two events are at all related."
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