write a short note on Indian ocean
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The Indian Ocean is the ocean surrounded by Asia to the north, Australia and the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Southern Ocean to the south, and Africa and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It is named for the river Indus and Ancient India on its north shore. The Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea are all parts of this ocean.The deepest point in the Indian Ocean is in the Java Trench near the Sunda Islands in the east, 7500 m (25,344 feet) deep. The average depth is 3,890 m (12,762 ft). The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean, 28,350,000 square miles in size. The majority is in the southern hemisphere.
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the Indian is the third largest among the oceans of the world covering an area of about 73 million km square. it is bounded on the North by Indian sub-continent and south-east asia; on the South by the southern Ocean ; on the east by Australia and the island of south-east Asia; and on the West by africa and madagascar. the average depth of the Indian Ocean is about 4000 meter it has a few oceanic trenches like sunda, socotra - chagos, seychelles, madagascar, crozet, etc. some of the important seas under the Indian Ocean include Arabian sea, Persian Gulf, bay of bengal, andaman sea, red Sea, etc. on the other hand, some of the important oceanic islands in the Indian Ocean are sri Lanka, Andaman and nicobar islands, Indonesia, Maldives, seychelles, madagascar, etc.