Indian Ocean

The area of the Indian Ocean left to be searched for Flight 370 is vast—more than 23,000 square miles.

It also raises the question of why more appropriate resources were not sent to the Indian Ocean sooner.

At the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, you can snorkel with a retired Asian elephant Rajan.

Everyone on board knew that a Malaysian Airlines flight had been missing, and all were presumed dead in the Indian Ocean.

Days were wasted searching the South China Sea, not the Indian Ocean.

The Indian Ocean, meanwhile, swarmed with pirates of whose rapacity and cruelty frightful stories were told.

After some days we were in the Indian Ocean, plowing lazily along and counting the hours until we reached Mombasa.

These Indian Ocean steamers are usually filled with an interesting lot of passengers.

I have spoken of the abundance and variety of the epiphytous plants which grow profusely in the islands of the Indian Ocean.

The Papuan races likewise wandered far across the Indian Ocean.