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Reefs and Shoals of the Indian Ocean

This group collects the Coastal and Reef Features subcategory's members in the Indian Ocean, including reefs and shoals of the Chagos Archipelago, the Red Sea off Egypt and Sudan, and other named reefs off the East African and Indian Ocean island coasts. This is the subcategory's smallest ocean-region group by count, spanning both coral reef and open-water shoal features, several documented chiefly through shipping and hydrographic surveys rather than as tourist or dive destinations, reflecting how much of this region's named reef content in the atlas comes from historical maritime records.

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1. Indian Ocean (Wikipedia)
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The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface.
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