Top 10 facts you may not heard about source - britannica The Indian Ocean has a total area of 73,440,000 square kilometers or 28,360,000 ...
Top 10 facts you may not heard about
- The Indian Ocean has a total area of 73,440,000 square kilometers or 28,360,000 square miles.
- About forty percent of world’s oil supply is sourced from the depths of the Indian Ocean.
- The Indian Ocean receives 6,000 kilometers of river runoff from large rivers like the Ganges and the Brahmaputra.
- The Indian Ocean is known as the warmest ocean in the world. Its rate of warming is also the fastest among the tropical oceans, further exacerbated by greenhouse warming and climate change.
- The water from the Indian Ocean has unique chemical properties of its own. Its water has a high concentration of hydrocarbons (both dissolved and floating) and a negative water balance at maximum levels.
- When compared to other world oceans, the Indian Ocean is relatively closed. It is primarily landlocked by Asia to its north.
- Scientists and researchers are in consensus that the Indian Ocean has the most complicated origin among the three largest world oceans.
- One of the world’s most disastrous natural event happened in the Indian Ocean. This was the tsunami of 2004 which claimed about 200,000 lives.
- The Indian Ocean has the fewest trenches among the world oceans. Its most prominent one and the world’s second longest, the Java Trench, stretches past Sumatra and extends up to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
- Every year, the Indian Ocean is subjected to a whole lot pollution from oil spills and ships. The Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea are the most pollution-prone areas in the Indian Ocean.
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