Links to Indian Ocean World Sites
Indian Ocean Region:
- British Indian Ocean Territory, consisting of the Chagos Archipelago and other small island groups, this territory was formed in 1965 by agreement with Mauritius and the Seychelles. One of its islands, Diego Garcia (17 sq mi), is a joint U.S.-UK refueling and support station that was used during the Persian Gulf War (1991), the war against Afghanistan (1991), and the second Iraq war (2003).
- Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, Tufts University: a focal point for scholars of and scholarship on the South Asian subcontinent with an emphasis on history, culture, literature, religion, politics, economics and diplomacy relation to the countries of of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka , Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives) and comparative studies of Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
- Indian Ocean Climatology & Oceanography (IOCO) Gateway: Information on the climate and the oceanography (physical, biological, geological, chemical, etc.) of the Indian Ocean
- Indian Ocean: Cradle of Globalization, University of Pennsylvania: Indian Ocean Sites
- Indian Ocean Programme, Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Bergen. The Indian Ocean focus grew up, partly from the Sudan milieu, partly from independent research on East Africa and South-East Asia in the late 1990s. Its main bases have been in Anthropology, History as well as Archaeology which has been active in East African studies for some time.
- Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG): An academic initiative based at Panjab University in Chandigarh and the University of Western Australia in Perth to provide a research umbrella for social science policy-oriented research in the Indian Ocean Rim.
- Seacology - Indian Ocean Island Projects: Seacology is the world's premier nonprofit environmental organization with the sole purpose of preserving the highly endangered biodiversity of islands throughout the world.
- Stanford University Indian Ocean islands
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