Indian Ocean facts - Savoy Resort & Spa

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Savoy Seychelles Resort Spa Facts about Indian
Ocean
Far away from the neighbors, Seychelles islands
are scattered in the middle of the boundless
Indian Ocean, which keeps many secrets and
mysteries. Lets reveal some of them!
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• Indian Ocean washes 4 continents - Australia,
  Antarctica, Africa and Asia.

The Indian Ocean is 10 times the size of
Australia.
The Indian Ocean accounts for 20 of the entire
water surface of the Earth.
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The famous Bermuda Triangle is located in the
Indian Ocean.
There are only 10 coastal seas in the Indian
Ocean.
The first European to cross the Indian Ocean was
the Venetian merchant and traveler Marco Polo.
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At the bottom of the Indian Ocean, next to the
island of Mauritius, there is a unique underwater
waterfall that looks like real thanks to the
flowing sand.

• Among all the Earth's oceans, it is the Indian
  Ocean that is the warmest, if we take into
  account the average temperature of the water.

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It passes through all the climatic zones of the
Southern Hemisphere.
At the bottom of the Indian Ocean are huge
mountain ranges that were discovered only about
ten years ago.
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• The deepest point of the Indian Ocean exceeds the
  mark of 7200 meters.
• In the waters of the Indian Ocean, you can find
  the largest atoll coral complexes in the world.

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Lovers of botany and zoology can be amazed at the
huge variety represented by the local flora and
fauna, which is associated with the location of
the ocean in several geographical zones.
Turtles, snakes, mollusks and so on found refuge
in the ocean.
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The ocean is washed by many island states, for
example, such as the Maldives, Seychelles, Sri
Lanka etc.
On the surface of the ocean, anyone can see a
very interesting phenomenon in the form of
periodically appearing luminous circles. This
fact of the appearance of these objects is not
yet known to science, some scientists dare to
assume that the appearance of these unusual
circles is directly related to the huge
concentration of small plankton on the water
surface.
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