Deep in the South Indian Ocean , these two protected World Heritage sites, a mere 1, 010 sea miles north of Antarctica, are rarely visited, and not at all for the past decade.
From the 16, 000-foot summit of Point Lenana, one of three peaks that comprise the Mount Kenya massif, we can see Kilimanjaro's shiny white dome rising to the south, the blue of the Indian Ocean lying to the east, and a lush green canopy of jungle spreading to the north.
His most controversial demands include calls for the return of Russia's former territories in Poland, Finland and Alaska, and expansion to the south, as far as the Indian Ocean.
Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.
We believe that all small states of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific can now make some concrete provision against natural disaster to which global warming may sadly make them even more vulnerable.
The bustling seaport of Freemantle lies 19km south-west of Perth where the Swan River meets the Indian Ocean and its historic heritage is clear for all to see.
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It enjoys immense natural resources and dominance of international trade routes to and from south central China and the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.
Equally, what is China doing building roads, ports and pipelines in Myanmar and Pakistan, connecting west and south-west China with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean?
This simulated wave will cross the Indian Ocean in 12 hours to strike the coast of South Africa.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
Pirates have caused havoc among ships traversing vast parts of the Indian Ocean, as far east as the Seychelles and as far south as the Comoro islands.
By the end of March 2008 thirty-five micro-projects led by youth for youth in the Caribbean, Pacific and AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea) regions had been implemented.
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