Indian Ocean
Indian Ocean between Africa, Asia and Australia is the third largest of our oceans.
Some of the sea islands or island groups are independent states, such as Indonesia, Madagascar, Seychelles, Maldives and Sri Lanka. On other islands belonging to individual islands or groups of islands throughout the other states. One example where Comoros Mayotte belongs to France and the Mascarene is divided on Mauritius and France.
Islands and archipelagos of Australia is Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Heard and McDonald Islands and Ashmore and Cartier Islands.
Chagos Islands belong to the British Indian Ocean Territory and Kerguelenöarna belongs to the French Southern Territories.
Monsoon
The equatorial minimet, as in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean north of the equator, is in the warm Indian Ocean, situated south of it. This implies that nordöstpassaden goes up to 10 ° south of the equator, taking it through the Earth's rotation changes to a northwesterly or westerly winds (australmonsunen). During the summer season ends nordöstpassaden and is succeeded by the southwest monsoon, it is usually cold because the passport, then it will return the northeast monsoon.
Cyclones
Indian Ocean is haunted by violent cyclones. Of these 52% occur in the fall (September-November) and 43% in spring (April-June), this is the time for the monsoon of letters.
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Indian Ocean - subregions