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90˚E
30˚N
Indus Somali Somali
Brahmaputra Current North Equatorial Current
Ganges
Karachi ASIA Current SW Monsoon
Murray Narmada (Calcutta) Tropic of Cancer Equatorial Counter Current Current
Ridge
Kolkata
Chittagong
Indus
Fan
3,427m Irrawaddy South Equatorial Current South Equatorial Current
(11,244ft) Mumbai Godavari Ganges Fan Rangoon Salween
Arabian 20m Goa Krishna Bay of 2,429m Agulhas Current
(66ft) Chennai Bengal (7,970ft) Agulhas Current
Sea (Madras) Antarctic Circumpolar Current Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Arabian Mangalore Andaman Andaman
Pondicherry Islands Sea 120˚E
Basin Laccadive Andaman
Islands Cochin SUMMER SURFACE WINDS
4,481m Basin Phuket
(14,702ft) Sri Lanka Nicobar
Islands
3,462m
Colombo (11,359ft) Strait of Malacca South West Monsoon
Mahabiss Fracture Zone Chagos–Laccadive Plateau Maldives (15,900ft) Sunda Trench Sumatra Singapore Equator South East Trades
Malay
4,846m
Peninsula
Carlsberg
Ridge
Sealark Fracture Zone
Ceylon Plain
Basin
3,658m Chagos Chagos Trench Mid - Indian Cocos Java
Fracture Zone Archipelago
(12,002ft) Mid-Indian Ridge Vema Basin N i n e t y e a s t R i d g e (14,646ft) Investigator Ridge Java Trench Java Ridge Timor Westerlies
Argo Fracture Zone
4.464m
7,125m
Marie Celeste Fracture Zone Osborn Wharton (23,377ft) Australian Sahul Shelf Beaufort Scale Speed
North
0–16 kph (0–10 mph)
0–3
Plateau
Basin
3–5.5
16–40 kph (10–25 mph)
Gascoyne
over 5.5
over 40 kph (over 25 mph)
Plain
5,614m
Egeria Fracture Zone
5.678m
Plateau
Rodrigues (18,240ft) Basin (18.636ft) Exmouth Rowley Shelf Broome
Wallaby
INDIAN
Port Hedland
Cuvier
4,023m Plateau Cuvier Basin
(13,199ft) East Indiaman Ridge Batavia Plateau Carnarvon AUSTRALIA Tropic of Capricorn
2,078m Seamount
(6,818ft) OCEAN Perth 5
Amsterdam Fracture Zone Broken Ridge Hartog Ridge Naturaliste Fracture Zone Great Australian Port Augusta 30˚S
Basin
Perth
Naturaliste
Ob’ Trench
Murray
Plateau
Bight
Adelaide
5,852m
Amsterdam Island Diamantina Fracture Zone (19,200ft) Melbourne
St Paul Island
Bass
Strait 6
South Australian Basin
4,980m
(16,339ft) Tasmania
Hobart
South Australian Tasman
Plain
Kerguelen S o u t h e a s t I n d i a n R i d g e Plateau
Heard and
McDonald Islands
4,285m 7
(14,059ft) 5,386m
(17,671ft)
184m
Kerguelen Plateau
(604ft) S o u t h I n d i a n B a s i n
4,684m Banzare Seamounts SOUTHERN OCEAN 60˚S
(15.368ft) ATLAS OF THE OCEANS
SCALE
8
Antartic Circle 0 200 400 600 800 1,000km
Prydz Bay ANTARCTICA 0 200 400 600 800 1,000 miles
90˚E 120˚E
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