Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world’s five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, but larger than the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean). Four critically important access waterways are the Suez Canal (Egypt), Bab el Mandeb (Djibouti-Yemen), Strait of Hormuz (Iran-Oman), and Strait of Malacca (Indonesia-Malaysia). The decision by the International Hydrographic Organization in the spring of 2000 to delimit a fifth ocean, the Southern Ocean, removed the portion of the Indian Ocean south of 60 degrees south latitude.

If I can find the time, I will research and write an article about the Indian Ocean, focusing on it from this website’s perspective. With nearly two dozen websites to develop, I’m simply overwhelmed. But now that I’ve completed a major upgrade (May 2009) of most of my websites, I’m once again focusing on content, attacking it witih a combination of articles, databases and blogs.

In the meantime, if you can’t find whatever you’re looking for here, you might click the Regions and/or Children tabs above (if any) and explore some of those links. Note, also, the WebRing links near the bottom of the page.

Finally, you can try my new, improved and expanded search pages, where you can search this website, a combination of sites or the entire web. (See the Search link at the top of the page.)

Good general references include Wikipedia > Indian Ocean. For current events, try Google News > Indian Ocean. (However, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the corporate media, particularly on socio-political issues.)

Thanks for bearing with me, and please check back now and then. :)

David Blomstrom -- May 7, 2009

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