 W., & enclosed by the countries of Asia on the N. It communicates with the China sea by the strait of Malacca, Sunda strait, & the strait of Flores. The monsoons, or periodical winds, prevail in the N. part of the ocean, blowing from the SW between April...  Putnam's Home Cyclopedia ... - Page 390by G.P. Putnam & Co - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Naval art and science - 1856 - 748 pages
...Africa separates it from the Atlantic Ocean, and its Southern boundary is generally considered to be a line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to Bass Strait. * The peculiar form of the land which surrounds this extensive basin prevents the currents of air and... | |
 | Sir Thomas Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell - Australia - 1850 - 292 pages
...from the Atlantic on the west by Africa, while its northern limit is generally understood to be formed by a line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to Bass' Straits. What are its principal seas, gulfs or bays ? The Ked Sea, between Arabia and Africa ; the... | |
 | Theophilus Carey Callicot - Geography - 1853 - 876 pages
...watering place by visitors from the more N. state*. INDIAN LAKE, Hamilton co. NY., is 4 m. long, Aim. wide. INDIAN OCEAN, a vast oceanic basin, separated...Bass' strait, divided ] from the Atlantic by Africa on trie W., A enclosed by the countries of Asia on the N. It communicates with the China sea by the strait... | |
 | Theophilus Carey Callicot - Geography - 1853 - 874 pages
...INDIAN OCEAN, n vast oceanic basin, separated from the Pacific on the E. by the Asiatic archipelago A Australia, ! bounded on S. by a line drawn from the...strait, divided from the Atlantic by Africa on the W., A enclosed by the countries of Asia on the N. It communicates with the China sea by the strait of Malacca,... | |
 | Theophilus Carey Callicot - Geography - 1854 - 882 pages
...is 4 m. long, Alm. wide. INDIAN OCEAN, a vast oceanic basin, separated from the Pacifie on the 33. by the Asiatic archipelago & Australia, bounded on...strait, divided from the Atlantic by Africa on the W., <fc enclosed by the countries of Asia on the N. It communicates with the China • sea by the strait... | |
 | Theophilus Carey Callicot - Gazetteers - 1855 - 880 pages
...separated from the Pacifio on the E. by the Asiatic archipelago A Australia, bounded on 8. by a lino drawn from the cape of Good Hope to Bass' strait,...countries of Asia on the N. It communicates with the China eea by the strait of M alacca, Sunda strait, & the strait of Flores. The monsoons, or periodical winds,... | |
 | Charles Philippe de Kerhallet - Indian Ocean - 1870 - 310 pages
...; the east coast of Africa forms its western limit; and its generally received southern boundary is a line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to Bass Strait, formed by the coasts of Australia, or "Sew Holland, and Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania. The form of... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Encyclopedias - 1897 - 496 pages
...pantomime. In'diau Ocean, one of the five grand divisions of the universal ocean, is bounded on the S. by a line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to the most southern extremity of Tasmania or Van Dieman's Land. Its other limits, reckoned from the last-mentioned... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 830 pages
...surface on both sides. INDIAN O'CEAN: one of the five grand divisions of the universal ocean; bounded s. by a line drawn from the Cape of Good Hope to the most southerly extremity of Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land. Its other limits reckoning from the... | |
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