Indian ocean

People around the Indian Ocean have been marking six months since the earthquake and deadly tsunami that devastated a string of countries.

At the time of the great Sumatra earthquake in 2004 there was no capability in the Indian Ocean region for a tsunami hazard.

According to its unique geopolitical conditions, India can't neglect Indian Ocean if it wants to carry out the dream of great power.

So, the wind is now coming from the northeast out of India, across the Indian Ocean, this way towards Africa.

'We are at the crossroads between the two giants. You've got to pass Singapore to go from the Indian Ocean into the Pacific, ' he said.

Buy a have to see woven bag just RMB 25 yuan, in its find a pair of sandals, encircled by shell with the Indian Ocean sunset colors.

And China is building oil pipelines and ports that will give it a hugely important strategic foothold on Burma's Indian Ocean coast.

All this wet air is pulled in by a high pressure area over the Indian Ocean and a low pressure area to the south.

The daring raid that the president ordered delivered Osama bin Laden to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.

Thanks to a massive international effort, the elements of such a system are coming together in the Indian Ocean.

Their appeal was the latest in a series of calls by the international community to try to end the fighting on the Indian Ocean island.

Mivinjeni primary has no windows and the Indian Ocean breeze gently blows through the Swahili grammar class.

Only in 2005, following the Indian Ocean tsunami, did it adopt an agreement obliging members to help one another in natural calamities.

Already America conducts more joint military exercises with India than it does with any other single country, notably in the Indian Ocean.

An earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami that surged across the Indian Ocean, and reached as far as the coast of Africa.

They ended up in a part of the Indian Ocean where a lot of pirate attacks happen.

Phillips was held for five days in a lifeboat on the Indian Ocean, and was rescued when U. S. Navy snipers shot dead three of the pirates.

When the 2004 tsunami hit the Indian Ocean, America sent the Seventh Fleet of the U. S. Navy to help evacuees. China sent a cargo ship.

It was attacked by pirates after it left the escort of a Japanese naval vessel and entered the Indian Ocean.

SOME natural disasters, like the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, strike out of the blue.

Amid these worries, many Asian countries still look to America as the only credible guarantor of security in the Indian Ocean.

Her relative was killed by one of the deadliest natural disasters that we have ever seen: the Indian Ocean tsunami.

The tsunami, triggered by an earthquake off Indonesia, left 300, 000 dead in countries around the Indian Ocean.

Much of the tsunami-detection effort has focused on Sumatra, where the Indian Ocean tsunami took a horrendous toll.

Somali pirates seized control of the German-owned merchant vessel Beluga Fortune in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, Reuters reports.

Even for astronauts, this was a rare sight indeed: an aurora hovering over the southern Indian Ocean.

An underwater journey into the Indian Ocean rewards you with glimpses of a totally different world, full of astounding color and life.

Easterly trade winds blow from the Indian Ocean over the African continent, losing much of their moisture as they go.

Maldives isolated from the Indian Ocean island into a model of tourism and environmental protection.

The tsunami hit the coastline around the Indian Ocean. As a consequence, thousands of people died and more became homeless.

"Any American strike against Iran -- and its aftershocks regarding the flow of oil -- will have an Indian Ocean address, " he adds.

A young man dives off the wall of the Galle Fort into the Indian Ocean, in Galle, Sri Lanka on Aug.

The Portuguese were well fitted for the leadership of a European effort to exploit the trade of the Indian Ocean.

Ships plying between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea have to go through the Strait of Malacca.

Leviathan among sharks, a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) gains on its small prey in the Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia.

It started with a mock earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a virtual tsunami wave that crossed the Indian Ocean in 12 hours.

Historians also talk of a "Porcelain Route" or "Silk Route" across the Indian Ocean.

BOB DOUGHTY: The Indian Ocean tsunami of two thousand four was among the worst ever reported.

India is determined to keep China's growing navy out of the Indian Ocean, regarded by Delhi as its Mare Nostrum.

For Arab countries the dhow has been the workhorse of the Indian Ocean, just as the junk has been for the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

President Bush says U. S. troops are making a significant difference in the lives of those affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

It is located in the Indian Ocean, 250 miles off the eastern coast of Africa across the Mozambique Channel, just south of the equator.

addition, the U. S. secretly parked in the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles for the UAV fitted with offensive weapons.

The Portuguese entered the Indian Ocean, and by the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Europe had begun to dominate world trade.

Location: an island nation in the Indian Ocean, north-grams at each other across the Strait and India, near the southern equatorial.

Afghanistan was an Islamic country and also the path to the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

The westward wave traveled across the Indian Ocean as swiftly as a jet plane, striking India and Sri Lanka.

In the past, when natural disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami struck, China always provided timely assistance to Sri Lanka.

And December marked one year since the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than two hundred thousand people.

During the past several decades, these ecosystems have been damaged and reduced in most countries along the Indian Ocean.

Mauritius, an island lying off the southeast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, has just been added to China's list of tourist destinations.

These promise China access to the Indian Ocean, which would be of great strategic interest.

More than one hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean, the mistake was made.

Another tense moment occurred in the Indian Ocean off Indonesia, where the Intrepid was approached by a suspected pirate boat.

Therefore, for the tropical Indian Ocean, the results manifest that the IOD mode is mainly response to the asymmetry of wind stress anomaly.

India lies in the core area of the South Asia and the Indian Ocean. It has a very important position in the world geopolitical system.

John: Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.

Further, unlike the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster, most Japanese had been taught from a young age exactly what to do when a quake hits.

Daniel: Yeah, he, with his fleet, came across the Indian Ocean, and arrived at the east coast of Africa.

French scientists attached monitoring devices to a dozen macaroni penguins on the Kerguelen Islands of Indian Ocean.

In Thailand, low-key ceremonies mark the start of the one-year anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed at least 216, 000 people.

The ISS was located over the southern Indian Ocean when this picture was taken, with the astronaut observer looking towards the west.

Well I'll tell you, The Maldives is an island nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean famous for its untouched beaches, & serene beauty.

Fueling the monsoons' intensity are warmer-than-usual temperatures in and above the Indian Ocean.

The bones were discovered in 2003 in a cave in southeastern Madagascar, an island nation off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.

China's dream of Indian Ocean ports -- the so-called string of pearls -- is heightening geopolitical tensions in a rough neighborhood.

The Maldives lies in two rows of atolls in the Indian Ocean, just across the equator.

There may be a thousand or more of them in the Indian Ocean, unchecked and untraceable.

Japan has sent its Aegis-equipped destroyer to the Indian Ocean to support the U. S. led war on terrorism.

And a quake and tsunami off Aceh in 2004 led to more than 200, 000 deaths around the Indian Ocean.

The city of Padang, where the inspector presided, hugs a stagnant estuary on the Indian Ocean side of the island.

Aceh province was the worst affected of all the Indian Ocean areas hit by the December 26 earthquake and tsunami.

They moved closer and closer together as they flew across the Indian Ocean.

This geography encompassed a total of 46 countries both North and South of the Sahara as well as the Indian Ocean Islands.

Top Pakistani and U. S. commanders met on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean last week to discuss border security.

One of these is the Republic of Maldives , a beautiful island nation in the Indian Ocean .

His research also has led to getting food quickly to disaster survivors, like those of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004.

At the outset in Broome, on a sunset-bathed Cable Beach, Western Australia had seemed defined by the Indian Ocean.

The city is located in the coastal Benadir region on the Indian Ocean and has served as an important port for centuries.

Anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden and the southern Indian Ocean now comprise up to 30 naval vessels.

Taiwan (Lan Yu) [Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines; Australia, Indian Ocean islands, Pacific islands].

Ocean Mixed Layer Temperature Variations Induced by Intraseasonal Convective Perturbations over the Indian Ocean.

In the wake of the unprecedented Indian Ocean tsunami, the Indonesian people, united as one, moved quickly to rebuild the affected areas.

The water source comes from the low latitude south of the subtropical high over the west Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

But from the populated parts of the Indian Ocean archipelago the news is more worrying.

Airport in the Maldives is located on an artificial island in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

In service to Ming emperor Zhu Di, Zheng's Treasure Fleet conducted widespread trade and diplomacy throughout the Indian Ocean.

Yet the Indian Ocean encompasses a quarter of the world's surface and is home to half of the world's shipping-container traffic.

Africa to Oceania: Red Sea and East Africa and most inland freshwater bodies over the Indian Ocean and western Pacific.

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, USS Ranger left San Diego, California, to sail into the Indian Ocean, relieving the USS Kennedy.

The air over the land is warmer than the air over the Indian Ocean.

The group is also helping rebuild a pediatric hospital in Sri Lanka that was destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami in two thousand five.

More than four-fifths of crude oil bound for China crosses the Indian Ocean before passing through the narrow Malacca Strait.

A tsunami alert has not been issued for Indonesia, the nation worst hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

Between the Indian Ocean and jungle of Bali's southern Bukit Peninsula, Karma Kandara has a sea-view spa and gourmet dining.

Others, more cynical, say this figure was bumped up so that it would be higher than those killed in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.

Bin Tanzania, East Indian Ocean, from Tanganyika and Zanzibar, made up of two parts.

The tsunami did great damage to the coastline around the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka's Army says it has the Tigers surrounded on three sides, with the Navy patrolling the fourth side, the Indian Ocean.

The intensity of the Tibetan Plateau Southern Side Path is far less than that of the IOVP in the Indian Ocean monsoon area.

The declaration comes as Liang Guanglie makes the first-ever visit by a Chinese defence minister to the Indian Ocean island state.

He cited the company's relief efforts in the aftermath of the 1999 earthquake in Turkey and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

They will stay with her parents for ten days on Bazaruto, an Indian Ocean island off Mozambique.

Magellan was trying to find a passage to the Indian Ocean.

Stretched across miles of the Indian Ocean in terrifying majesty is the armada of Zheng He, admiral of the imperial Ming navy.

Sultans, sailors, slaves, and spice traders have all passed through this mystical Indian Ocean archipelago on East Africa's Swahili Coast.

Blue sky and white clouds, the shadows of coconut trees, the mirage of water front, is an oasis of the Indian Ocean.

"Small-scale fisheries are woefully underreported for bycatch, " he notes, especially in the eastern Indian Ocean and off West Africa.

This image shows both internal waves and surface waves on the Indian Ocean near the Andaman Islands.

To date, the Somalia piracy covers a large area on the Indian Ocean stretching between the Red Sea to the coast of Kenya.

Mr Fukuda's first challenge is to extend the Japanese navy's refuelling role in American-led operations in the Indian Ocean.

It in 1869 break through behind shortened Europe to aquatic distance of the Indian Ocean and west Pacific Ocean consumedly .

a republic on the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formerly Southern Yemen.

"China is developing its navy at a great rate. Its ambitions in the Indian Ocean are quite clear. "

This photo shows a rare aurora australis over the Southern Indian Ocean, likely caused by a coronal mass ejection in April.

Five days after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the U. S. government pledged $350 million for humanitarian and recovery assistance.

This species is found in coastal waters around the Indian Ocean.

The greater Indian Ocean region encompasses the entire arc of Islam, from the Sahara Desert to the Indonesian archipelago.

Tsunamis are fairly common in the Pacific, whereas in the Indian Ocean they may occur only once in a century.

Through numerical experiments, the influence of coupled process in the Pacific Ocean on the Indian Ocean is investigated.

Both will link these ports on the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal -- both arms of the Indian ocean-by rail to western China.

The island of Sri Lanka, lies within the Indian Ocean, with the Bay of Bengal to the northeast.

Rising temperatures in the Indian Ocean create conditions that pull moisture away from East Africa.

Eco- friendly designs that incorporate local fauna meld with sweeping views of the Indian Ocean .

The United Nations estimates the annual cost of piracy in the Indian Ocean at between $5 billion and $7 billion.

Mozambique, Somalia, and Tanzania on the African side of the Indian Ocean have also reported severe damage to their fishing.

Severe ocean storms that develop over the Indian Ocean are called cyclones.

This spectacular image of sunset on the Indian Ocean was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

From South Africa to Somalia, more than 11, 000 species of marine plants and animals thrive along the western edge of the Indian Ocean.

Though this species was once common, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and South Africa are now among its last refuges in the Indian Ocean.

Adrift in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the Cocos Keeling Islands lie halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka.

The shadow then swept over Uganda, Kenya, and Somalia before moving over the Indian Ocean.

Admiral Raza explains that Pakistan is opening "a doorway for our Chinese friends" to broaden their presence in the Indian Ocean.

In 2004, there was little measuring technology in place to warn Indian Ocean countries about incoming killer waves.

The capital and largest city of Mozambique, in the extreme southern part of the country on the Indian Ocean.

Sri Lanka, rich in spirituality and famous for its Ceylon tea, is a small island country in the Indian Ocean, south of India.

Summer Getaways to the Indian Ocean. Looking for 3 versatile, fun-loving gentlemen to take a trip to the sunny Maldives.

And consumers have also been urged to avoid yellowfin tuna caught using purse seine nets or long lines in the Indian Ocean.

But the big-money tourists went east or south for the big game safaris and the luxury resorts on the Indian Ocean and the Cape.

Tens of thousands more perished in a dozen countries surrounding the Indian Ocean.

Indo-West Pacific: southern Japan, East China Sea, and the Philippines, but may extend into Indian Ocean, Australia and New Zealand.

On Wednesday, 20 countries participated in a major Indian Ocean-wide tsunami drill aimed at testing a new tsunami warning system.

Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific: India to Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to New South Wales, Australia.

Gazetteer Indo-Pacific: Cocos -Keeling Islands in the eastern Indian Ocean to western Pacific and islands of Oceania.

Defence ties with African states bordering the Indian Ocean could boost the fight against terrorism and piracy.

and two large scale mantle upwelling regions in mid and south Pacific Ocean and west Indian Ocean-Africa-Atlantic Ocean.

Pirates in the Indian Ocean have captured a sailing boat carrying seven Danish citizens, including a couple and their three children.

The emperor sent him to the Indian Ocean seven times.

They also expect China to project its navy into the Indian Ocean, regardless of Pakistan's allegiance.

Somali pirates boarded the Montecristo, an Italian bulk carrier, in the Indian Ocean on Monday. Photograph: AP.

The oceans in the world are the Pacific Ocean, The Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Southern ocean.

The total battlefield, a sandy spar between a deep lagoon and the Indian Ocean, is now around 6. 5 square kilometres (2. 5 square miles).

Notice how it is always above a point in the Indian Ocean.

Before the Olympic Games started, our team did their practice in Dar es Salaam on the shores of the Indian Ocean for three months.

We have seen devastation from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, interpreted as a sign of crowding at the coasts.

Demonstrations and uprisings in the Middle East affect the oil price, pirates in the Indian Ocean affect global trade.

Aromatic Asian fusion specialities include the freshest catch from the Indian Ocean served for dinner.

However, their effect may be merely to shift the problem from the Gulf of Aden to the Indian Ocean.

Two studies released this year on patterns of sea-level rise in the Indian Ocean are a case in point.

tramp service to cover for Russia, South East Asia, South Pacific, Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Brazil.

The new hardware's priority will be defending Australia's northern approaches from the Indian Ocean via the Timor Sea to Polynesia.

So the pirates are being forced to venture ever farther out into the Indian Ocean to seize their booty.

In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia.

Talks are also underway to provide a route from Bangkok to the Myanmar port of Tavoy on the Indian Ocean.

Many voyages were made to the Indian Ocean during that period.

The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 was a murderous event, but the world pushed on and many areas recovered quickly (see Buttonwood).

Tamil Nadu is a beautiful state nestled in the southern Indianpeninsula, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal and the deep blue Indian Ocean.

Muslim traders also exported as many as 17 million slaves to the coast of the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, and North Africa.

It's the Horn of Africa, that part of northeast Africa thatjuts out into the Indian Ocean just below the Arabian Peninsula.

The opposite side is the cut line of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. It's a natural line.

Stunning Indian Ocean beaches front Mogadishu's old city, though frequent shark attacks make the waters too dangerous for swimming.

Situated in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, nearly 1800 kilometers from the African Coast, is the tiny island of Mauritius.

For Beijing, the partnership with Sri Lanka offers secure access to the Indian Ocean through which most of China's oil passes.

New Delhi's idea that the Indian Ocean was India's Ocean, plus its assertive policing, was another.

An English ship had roamed the Indian Ocean, preying with impunity upon Portuguese commerce .

We share our perspectives on South and Central Asia, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the Indian Ocean region.

The Chagos Islands of the Indian Ocean are a military zone, too.

After sailing for seven days and seven nights, the fleet finally arrived at the Indian Ocean.

After the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, tens of thousands of missing people were never recovered.

Strong winds from the Indian Ocean bring warm weather and heavy rains which are necessary for growing food.

Double chain of twenty-six atolls. . . The Republic of Maldives, or simply the Maldives, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean.

It's located in southeast Asia, in between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.

Kenya A country of east-central Africa bordering on the Indian Ocean. Nairobi is the capital and the largest city.

So news on October 19th that Somali pirates had hijacked a Chinese commercial vessel in the Indian Ocean caused a stir at home.

British seapower, after two centuries of hegemony, vanished from the Indian Ocean.

An aerial view shows Male, the capital city of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean.

The President of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika has opened a waterway that links his landlocked country to the Indian Ocean.

It is feared that the killer waves may have killed or displaced rare sea turtles in the Indian Ocean.

But journalist David Hughes of Maritimenet. org said dispatching warships to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean is simply not an option.

W. Bush, and his one-time political rival Mr. Clinton to Asia to aid the recovery from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Eels are fast vanishing from Mediterranean, swordfish from the Indian Ocean.

The discovery was made at Blombos Cave, 200 miles east of Cape Town, on a high cliff facing the Indian Ocean at the tip of South Africa.

Eels are fast vanishing from the Mediterranean, swordfish from the Indian Ocean.

Gwadar will afford China's expanding navy a supply base and safe haven that gives onto the Indian Ocean and Gulf.

Clouds ripple across the Indian Ocean in this photograph taken from the space shuttle Discoveryin 1999.

Four Americans were shot and killed by pirates who hijacked their ship in the Indian Ocean last week.

The island as many as 80 more senior resort hotel, is the Indian Ocean famous leisure vacation island, be called "hotel island" .

The Indian Ocean is fast becoming a zone of contested influence between Beijing and Delhi.

That was and is a long term foreign policy China to use Pakistan to get to the indian ocean. misusing Pakistan weakness.

They voyaged across the Indian Ocean.

A shot in the Indian Ocean might, then, generate a huge electromagnetic pulse over Moscow.

Meanwhile, during the period, the southern Indian Ocean Subtropical Dipole (IOSD) is closely related to SCS summer onset.

India and China vie for influence in the Indian Ocean, Russia and China compete in Central Asia.

South of the mountains, extends slowly to the Indian Ocean.

The change in air pressure draws in warm moist air from the Indian Ocean in the south.

India is voicing concerns about China's growing influence in the Indian Ocean region.

Its waters mingle in the southeast with the Atlantic Ocean and in the southwest with the Indian Ocean.

a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia.

There are also newer sources of tension, including competition over Indian Ocean sea-lanes and the exploration of outer space.

The 115-island Indian Ocean archipelago is a popular top-end tourist destination. Click to enlarge this image.

Around a third of this catch comes from the tiny republic of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean.

In 1405, he ordered Chinese ships to sail to the Indian Ocean, and put Zheng He in charge of the voyage.

The dramatic rescue justlast month of American teen Abby Sunderland in the Indian Ocean is a reminderof the perils she will face.

Until recently, no naval force in the Pacific or Indian Ocean could challenge the US Navy.

A city of southeast Kenya mainly on Mombasa Island, in the Indian Ocean north of Zanzibar.

Graceful and efficient, 2, 000-pound mantas feed on Indian Ocean krill as silversides swirl around them in Hanifaru Bay in the Maldives.

After a winter lull, the epidemic of piracy in the Indian Ocean has rapidly re-emerged in recent days.

It appears that some ocean regions (e. g. the southern Indian Ocean) rarely produce waves much higher than 13 meters.

It being low tide , they could see their thick roots, nibbled by the teeth of the Indian Ocean .

What's effect of Indian Ocean Tsunami vigorous to fishery trade on China and related areas?

The vessel was hijacked in mid-October in the Indian Ocean with a crew of 21.

Zheng He, famous for his voyages cross Indian Ocean to Africa in 1403, is a Muslim.

Why were cool SST anomalies absent in the Bay of Bengal during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole Event?

Flying at night over the Indian ocean 2, 424 meters. Same height as the dragonflies go.

Yesterday's light show began in Africa before crossing the Indian Ocean, where it reached its peak at about 7am GMT.

He studies in particular the fishes of the Indian Ocean.

TheMISR's images of polar clouds above the South Indian Ocean illustratetheir circulation at multiple altitudes.

They live on islands in the Indian Ocean and on the islands of west of South America.

What, they ask, is so special about the northwest Indian Ocean?

Red lionfish are native to the South Pacific, Indian Ocean and Red Sea.

Gross previously used the technique to estimate the shift caused by the 2004 Sumatran quake that caused the Indian Ocean tsunami.

The carrier owned by Qingdao Ocean Shipping Company was hijacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean on October 19.

China has three warships patrolling the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean.

AFTER the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, aid agencies clubbed together to review their efforts.

the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.

Reale says their new method will be useful for cyclone forecasting in the northern Indian Ocean, even in the Bay of Bengal.

Increasingly, pirates arrested in the Gulf of Aden or the western Indian ocean are being transported long distances to face trial.

Pirates hijacked a Spanish tuna trawler with 36 crew members aboard on the Indian Ocean Friday, AP said.

This island lies in the Indian Ocean, north-west of Australia and south of Java.

The earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean shocked the whole world.

After the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, some areas reported increased mosquito activity.

The group is also helping rebuild a pediatrics hospital in Sri Lanka that was destroyed by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2005.

Chinese vessel attacked by pirates in Indian Ocean.

The results show that K. yunnanensis might originate from South Asia in Indian Ocean areas.

Yet vast areas of the Pacific are unmapped and the Indian Ocean has hardly been touched.

Maldives is an archipelago country, which consists of 1, 200 islands, in the Indian Ocean.

It founds in western Indian Ocean in different colors.

Mr Ozawa seized on the Indian Ocean operations as a means to topple the government.

Sri Lanka is an island of twenty-one million people in the Indian Ocean.

Scottish sea captain who was hired to protect British shipping in the Indian Ocean and then was accused of piracy and hanged (1645-1701).