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Amazing beaches of Zanzibar.

#zanzibar #tanzania #indianocean #islandbeach #travel

Amazing beaches of Zanzibar.

#zanzibar #tanzania #indianocean #islandbeach #travel

Amazing beaches of Zanzibar.

#zanzibar #tanzania #indianocean #islandbeach #travel

Amazing beaches of Zanzibar.

#zanzibar #tanzania #indianocean #islandbeach #travel

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Heard Island and McDonald Islands ✧

Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1,700 ...

#hearisland #mcdonaldislands #australia #indianocean #australianantarcticterritory #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Heard Island and McDonald Islands ✧

Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1,700 ...

#hearisland #mcdonaldislands #australia #indianocean #australianantarcticterritory #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Heard Island and McDonald Islands ✧

Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1,700 ...

#hearisland #mcdonaldislands #australia #indianocean #australianantarcticterritory #wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

Islanders slam Qantas luggage cuts and price rises for Indian Ocean territories

When you live on a speck of land in the Indian Ocean a kilogram of essential supplies makes…
#Australia #Airfares #AU #Austrlia #diving #farzianzainal #flights #IndianOcean #indianoceanterritories #luggageallowance #Qantas #Travel #wanews
https://www.europesays.com/australia/86779/

How can #India & #Israel balance emerging regional axes? @PrinceArihan introduces "#HexagonOfAlliances"—a 6-nation strategic network linking #Mediterranean, #GulfOfAden & #IndianOcean to secure key #MaritimeCorridors & counter #MeccaAgreement. #Somaliland

https://saxafimedia.com/hexagon-of-alliances-india-israel-mecca/

#Türkiye’s 15-yr investment in #Somalia faces a challenge as #Berbera emerges as potential strategic hub linking #Somaliland with #Israel, #UAE, #Ethiopia, #India, #Greece & #Cyprus — reshaping the balance of power from #Mediterranean to #RedSea & #IndianOcean, extending beyond Somalia's territorial integrity.

https://saxafimedia.com/turkiye-somaliland-ankara-fears-red-sea/

Thursday, July 23, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/thursday-july-23-2026/

https://www.europesays.com/people/118920/ Why dropping ‘Indo-Pacific’ clarifies the Pentagon’s China strategy #Block1 #HudsonInstitute #IndianOcean #PeteHegseth #SanaeTakaichi #TaiwanWar #USINDOPACOM #USPACOM #USChinaRivalry #USIndia #USJapan #USPakistan

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐋🦴 Chinese scientists piloting the submersible Fendouzhe in the southeast #IndianOcean found fossil sites spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,000 m.

The #bones belong mostly to beaked #whales, with the oldest dating back 5.3 million years. Living #jellyfish, brittle stars, and bone-boring #worms still call these ancient carcasses home, allowing whale fall to serve as a #deepsea #ecosystem.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/whale-graveyard-indian-ocean/

#fossils #marinebiology #science #beakedwhales #paleontology #submersible #nature #pliocene #ocean #expedition

Friday, February 20, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/friday-february-20-2026/

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the International Space Station 🌎🧑‍🚀

#Africa #AtlanticOcean #Draco #Dragon #Earth #Expedition74 #IndianOcean #InternationalSpaceStation

⏩ 2 new pictures from NASA (Image Library) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=2&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20260203010524

First Dives in the Seychelles

I have been wanting to dive in the Seychelles for a long time. There is something about the isolation of the Indian Ocean and the promise of pristine reefs that has always called to me.

For this trip, I was diving off the SY Sea Bird, and we wasted no time getting into the water. This footage was captured right at the beginning of the trip, during one of my very first dives. The conditions were perfect. The coral reefs were awesome. The blue water was crystal clear and seemed to extend forever.

While the reefs themselves were stunning, the highlight of this dive was encountering a massive school of Soldierfish. They weren’t darting away or scattering; they were holding their line, moving through the open water like a “living veil”.

While the reefs themselves were stunning, the highlight of this dive was encountering a massive school of Soldierfish. They weren’t darting away or scattering. They were holding their line. The fish moved through the open water as a single, steady body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo45Ii3mgaw

📍 Location: Seychelles (Indian Ocean)

🤿 Dive Operation: S.Y. Sea Bird

🎥 Camera: Panasonic GH5 | 14-42 | Nauticam WWL1-B

Northern Hemisphere Wintertime Teleconnections from the 2023–24 El Niño Offset by Background SST Trends
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https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-25-0227.1 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108946 <-- shared paper
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#USA #Canada #NorthAmerica #Mexico #NorthernEurope #PacificOcean #ElNiño #ElNino #pluvial #precipitation #rainfall #snow #weather #climate #humanimpacts #model #modeling #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #atmosphere #extremeweather #CONUS #California #atmosphericriver #AtlanticOcean #IndianOcean #tropical #ENSO #winter #ocean #trend #teleconnections #seasurfacetemperature #SST #atmospheric #climatechange #natural #anthropogenic #noaa #NSF
#NationalCenterforAtmosphericResearch

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
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[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
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https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
--
[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
--
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
--
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
--
[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
--
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
--
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
--
[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Giant ‘Gravity Hole’ in the Ocean May Be the Ghost of an Ancient Sea
--
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/giant-gravity-hole-in-the-ocean-may-be-the-ghost-of-an-ancient-sea1/ <-- shared technical media article
--
https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared 2023 paper
--
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/geoid.html <-- technical description of a geoid
--
[theories abound]
"... KEY POINTS
• Employing time dependent global mantle convection models since the Cretaceous. [the authors] simulate the origin of the enigmatic Indian Ocean geoid low
• Plumes forming along the edges of the African Large Low Shear Velocity province (LLSVP) control the regional geoid in the Indian Ocean
• These plumes, in turn are generated by lower mantle Tethyan slabs that perturb the African LLSVP…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geoid #gravity #mapping #global #remotesensing #plume #ocean #ancientocean #gravityhole #geophysics #IndianOcean #geology #structuralgeology #crust #mantle #core #high #low #potsdamgravitypotato #IOGL #tomography #model #modeling #plate #tectonicplate #Tethys #slab #mantleplume #LLSVP #AfricanLargeLowShearVelocity

Found this on a walk on the #beach - what am i looking at? who recognizes this?
a #bone within a bone? #cetacean? #fish? #mammal ? #sealife #underwater

(
by age i am not a boy anymore, but on beach walks i still become all sand castles, #fantasy tales, #mermaids, pirates and such ...
)

#water #ocean #submarine #indianOcean

The #GreatNicobar project is likely to have disastrous effects on #island #rainforest and #marine #biodiversity... Sad that this huge., destructive project is being rushed through.
https://scroll.in/article/1076098/why-the-great-nicobar-project-could-spell-doom-for-the-islands-unique-fauna
#andamanandnicobarislands #threatenedspecies #primates #seaturtles #endemicspecies #transshipment #India #indianocean

An #ecological and #social disaster this project will surely be, but looks like it's gonna be an #economic disaster, too! #GreatNicobar #shippingnews
#andamanandnicobarislands #indianocean
https://scroll.in/article/1076167/the-proposed-rs-36000-crore-port-in-great-nicobar-may-be-economically-unsound-experts-warn

Thanks @hairylarry.

Yes, interesting stuff. They say it is based on the '#Maloya' (a powerful percussion-based and African-rooted style) and '#SégaLontan' (accordion-based Reunionese 'chanson') traditions from #LaReunion and #IndianOcean.

#theAlps #lesPythonsDeLaFournaise

Floods, fires, heat: The world's worst #weather disasters in 2023

Published on Dec. 27, 2023, 11:01 AM

An unsettling pace of history-bending weather disasters unfolded around the world in 2023, including #Libya’s horrific #flooding and #Hawaii’s tragic blazes

2023 kicked off by churning out the longest-lived tropical cyclone ever recorded, setting a grim tone for the drumbeat of atmospheric upheaval that would soon follow.

The year went on to produce Africa’s deadliest-ever flooding, a tragic wildfire that engulfed an entire Hawaiian community, and unprecedented heat in one of the world’s hottest deserts.

Here’s a look at five of the most impactful weather disasters we saw around the world in 2023.

1. Devastating #floods killed thousands in Libya

Many of the worst natural disasters are a combination of extreme weather clashing with poor infrastructure. The deadly flash floods that swept northern Libya on September 10, 2023, went down as the deadliest ever recorded in Africa, leaving more than 4,000 dead and thousands more reported missing.

#StormDaniel grew into the equivalent of a tropical storm in the southern Mediterranean during the first week of September.

The system made landfall in Libya, drenching drenched the arid region with an overwhelming glut of torrential rains.

Much of the runoff flowed into #WadiDerna, a dry riverbed that only fills up after heavy rains. The onslaught of runoff gushing down the wadi pressed against several aging dams in the port town of #Derna. The dams quickly crumbled under the pressure, unleashing a lethal wall of water into the city.

2. #CycloneFreddy spun for an impossibly long time

Cyclone Freddy was a powerful tropical system in the #IndianOcean that blew away the previous record for longest-lived tropical cyclone ever observed. The storm survived over the Indian Ocean for a whopping five weeks and two days—from February 6 until March 14—trouncing by almost a week the previous record set by Hurricane John in 1994.

The tenacious cyclone helped vault 2023 into the records as the only year we’ve ever observed at least one scale-topping Category 5 storm in every tropical ocean basin.

3. Southwestern U.S. endured historic heat, a rare tropical storm

The summer heat that roasted the U.S. southwest week after week proved to be an outlier even for one of the hottest places on Earth.

Persistent #HeatDomes dominated the region through July, allowing daytime highs to soar as hot as 50°C with nights barely falling below the upper 30s.

#PhoenixArizona, recorded a high of 43.3°C (110°F) on 31 consecutive days between June 30 and July 30, almost doubling the previous streak of such intense and repetitive heat. Even worse, the average nighttime low in Phoenix came in at a steamy 32.6°C, and five days saw a low of 35°C or warmer.

Extremes often beget extremes, and it took an extreme storm to break the unprecedented pattern of sweltering heat.

#HurricaneHilary forged an unusual track as it ran up #Mexico’s #BajaPeninsula in the middle of August. Water temperatures are so cold off the northwest Mexican coast that tropical systems usually dissipate in a hurry long before they can reach California.

Hilary moved at a decent clip and managed to avoid the coldest water, allowing it to reach California as a tropical storm. This marked the first tropical storm warning ever issued for Los Angeles. The storm went on to drop a year’s worth of rain on the state’s deserts.

4. A horrific fire became Hawaii’s worst natural disaster

Deadly wildfires are a recurring theme with our changing climate, and the year’s deadliest wildfire ripped through a community on Hawaii’s Maui.

A long-term drought combined with strong winds allowed numerous fires to rage on the Hawaiian Islands this summer. One of those explosive fires tore through Maui’s Lahaina, catching residents almost entirely off-guard to horrific effect.

Many folks jumped into the ocean to escape the fast-moving flames, which consumed most of the town’s homes and businesses in minutes.

The fire’s official death toll stands at 100, a tragic toll that makes the event Hawaii’s deadliest natural disaster on record. Four residents still remained unaccounted for months after the fire.

5. #SouthAmerica faced unprecedented heat

While the world ran a historic fever for much of 2023, South America likely took the brunt of the year’s most extreme heat.
Temperatures soared into the upper 30s in parts of South America in July and August, which is the heart of the southern hemisphere’s winter season. These temperatures were often more than 20°C hotter than normal—and reportedly broke all-time temperature records in the process.

The unprecedented summer-in-winter heat continued across the continent straight into spring. Thermometers in eastern #Brazil measured temperatures in the lower 40s in the middle of November. One person even died from the #ExtremeHeat in #RioDeJaneiro while waiting for a leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour to begin, prompting the musician to postpone the date.

https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weather/severe/year-in-review-2023-international-weather-disasters-libya-flooding-hawaii-wildfires

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Weather2023 #WeatherExtremes

How The Indian Ocean Geoid Low Was Formed
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102694 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #gravity #geoid #geodesy #IndianOcean #formation #IOGL #model #modeling #geophysics #structuralgeology #crustal #mantle #convection #Tethyan #sea #ocean #subsidence #anomaly #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #tomography #density #rock #geology #tectonics #platetectonics

New Insights Into The Seamount Structure Of The Northern Part Of The Ninetyeast Ridge (Indian Ocean) Through The Integrated Analysis Of Geophysical Data
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https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse11050924 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #seamount #NinetyeastRidge #bathymetry #fault #highresolution #seismicdata #reflector #magneticfield #anomaly #remotesensing #vulcanism #ocean #seafloor #survey #volcanic #IndianOcean #hydrospatial #sampling #geology #geophysics #geophysical #magnetism #magnetic #sonar #magmatism #structuralgeology #platetectonics #hotspot #model #modeling #3dmodeling #3dmodel #spatialnanalysis #formation #stage #data

https://archive.org/details/early-printing-in

Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles by Auguste Toussaint

Topics
#Mauritius, #Réunion, #Madagascar, #Seychelles, #printing, #printculture, #printcultures, #literacy, #printhistory, #colonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #IndianOcean, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #indianoceanworld, #Mascarenes, #frenchempire

The Spread of Printing: Eastern Hemisphere

https://archive.org/details/menalamba0en

The Rising of the Red Shawls: A Revolt in Madagascar 1895-1899 by Stephen Ellis

Topics
#Madagascar, #Malagasy, #Merina, #Merinaempire, #Imerina, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #revolt, #rebellion, #insurrection, #christianity, #menalamba, #war, #imperialism, #colonialwars, #historyofAfrica, #Africanhistory, #IndianOcean

Cambridge University Press: African Studies Series, volume 43

https://archive.org/details/mauritiusandtheseychelles

The History of Slavery in Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1810-1875 by Moses D. E. Nwulia

Topics
#Mauritius, #Seychelles, #britishcolonialism, #frenchcolonialism, #Africa, #history, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #IndianOcean, #antiblackness, #colonialism, #plantations, #sugarplantations

“This study emphasizes the roles that peoples of African origin played in the settlement and the development of Mauritius and the Seychelles during both French and British colonial regimes, and compares the socioeconomic conditions of blacks during the two periods.”