The Chagos Archipelago or Chagos Islands are a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean about 500 kilometres (310 mi) south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands is the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge, a long submarine mountain range in the Indian Ocean.
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) is an archipelago of 55 islands in the Indian Ocean, located south of India. It is situated approximately halfway between Africa and Indonesia. The islands form a semicircular group with an open sea towards the east. The largest, Diego Garcia, is located at the southern extreme end. It measures 60 square kilometres (23 sq mi) and accounts for almost three-quarters of the total land area of the territory. Diego Garcia is the only inhabited island and is home to the joint UK-US naval support facility. Other islands within the archipelago include Danger Island, Three Brothers Islands, Nelson Island, and Peros Banhos, as well as the island groups of the Egmont Islands, Eagle Islands, and the Salomon Islands.
The Réunion hotspot is a volcanic hotspot which currently lies under the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The Chagos-Laccadive Ridge and the southern part of the Mascarene Plateau are volcanic traces of the Réunion hotspot.
The Mascarene Plateau is a submarine plateau in the Indian Ocean, north and east of Madagascar. The plateau extends approximately 2,000 km (1,200 mi), from the Seychelles in the north to Réunion in the south. The plateau covers an area of over 115,000 km2 (44,000 sq mi) of shallow water, with depths ranging from 8–150 m (30–490 ft), plunging to 4,000 m (13,000 ft) to the abyssal plain at its edges. It is the second largest undersea plateau in the Indian Ocean after the Kerguelen Plateau.
The Central Indian Ridge (CIR) is a north-south-trending mid-ocean ridge in the western Indian Ocean.
Adas Bank is a submerged bank located off the west coast of India, between Angria Bank and Cora Divh bank of the Laccadive Islands.
The Arabian Basin is an oceanic basin located in the southern part of the Arabian Sea between the Arabian Peninsula and India. It is centered at 10° N, 65° E. The basin depth ranges from 3,400 m in the north to 4,400 m in the south, with a maximum depth of 4,652 m. The floor is covered by sediments from the Indus submarine fan and is relatively smooth.
Microbacterium hydrothermale is a Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium which has been isolated from hydrothermal sediments from the Indian Ocean.
Microbacterium indicum is a bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the Chagos Trench in the Indian Ocean.
Desmospora profundinema is a bacterium from the genus of Desmospora which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the Indian Ocean near China.
Altererythrobacter marinus is a bacterium from the genus of Altererythrobacter which has been isolated from deep seawater from the Indian Ocean.
Melghirimyces profundicolus is a bacterium from the genus of Melghirimyces which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the Indian Ocean.
Bhargavaea beijingensis is a Gram-positive, moderately halotolerant and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Bhargavaea which has been isolated from the root of a ginseng plant.
Bhargavaea ginsengi is a Gram-positive, moderately halotolerant and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Bhargavaea which has been isolated from the roots of a ginseng plant in Beijing in China.
Bhargavaea ullalensis is a Gram-positive, aerobic and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus of Bhargavaea which has been isolated from coastal sand from the coast of Ullal in India.
Novosphingobium indicum is a bacterium from the genus of Novosphingobium which has been isolated from deep-sea water from the Indian Ocean. Novosphingobium indicum hasd the ability to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
Microbacterium sediminis is a Gram-positive, rod-shaped, aerobic, psychrotolerant, thermotolerant, halotolerant, alkalitolerant bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the Indian Ocean.
Roseovarius indicus is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Roseovarius which has been isolated from deep sea-water from the Indian Ocean.
