Kanyakumari is the southernmost point of peninsular India and the meeting point of three oceans-the Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
It has no separate source of bottom water (i.e., the Indian Ocean's bottom water originates outside its boundaries) and has two sources of highly saline water (the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea). Below the surface layers, especially in the north, the ocean's water is extremely low in oxygen.
The correct answer is Sunda Trench. The Indian Ocean's deepest point is the Sunda Trench; is also known as the Java trench.
The seven key chokepoints in the IOR are the Mozambique Channel, the Bab el Mandeb, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, the Malacca Straits, the Sunda Strait, and the Lombok Strait.
The Indian Ocean is bound on the north by Asia, including the country of India for which it's named, on the west by Africa, and on the east by Indonesia and Australia. It extends southward to the continent of Antarctica.
Data published in Geoscience Data Journal shows the deepest point of the Indian Ocean at 7187 m, within the Java Trench, and the deepest point of the Southern Ocean at 7432 m, within the South Sandwich Trench.
The Indian Ocean is recognized as the world's third-largest and third-deepest ocean in the world. The Indian Ocean covers the approximate surface area of 20% of the total water surface of the world.
Straits of Malacca
This 580-mile-long water passage in Southeast Asia carries 25% of world trade and is thus the most significant choke point in the world.
The Strait of Hormuz, connecting the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, is one of the world's most strategically important maritime choke points.
The Mariana Trench: Earth's Deepest Place.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world's ocean basins. All of the world's continents could fit into the Pacific basin.
Dhanushkodi Beach is the The Last Point of India, where to oceans Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean meets.
A bizarre, pregnant "demon shark" with white eyes, that was first discovered off the coast of Western Australia in 1992, has finally been identified, some 31 years later. Marine biologists were at first stumped by the '92 discovery, unable to match the "ghost" shark to any existing species.
The newly identified species, Pyrolycus jaco, is the first fish species to be described from the hydrothermal seep site known as Jacó Scar, located on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica.
More than eighty percent of our ocean is unmapped, unobserved, and unexplored. Much remains to be learned from exploring the mysteries of the deep.
The waters of the Pacific Ocean comprise the world's largest heat reservoir, by far, and it is the warmest ocean, overall, of the world's five oceans. (The other oceans are the Arctic, Antarctic and Indian Oceans.)
In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest point known on Earth.
The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam. Challenger Deep is approximately 10,935 meters (35,876 feet) deep.
Japan has five such chokepoints that only count 3 miles as territorial waters, with the others being the Soya Strait, between the northern tip of Hokkaido and the Russian island of Sakhalin; and the east portion and west portion of the Tsushima Strait, which lies between South Korea and Japan.
The Suez Canal is an important choke point as it links the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea, hence giving a shortcut while travelling from Asia to Europe.
There are approximately 200 straits (narrow bodies of water connecting two larger bodies of water) or canals around the world but only a handful are known as chokepoints. A chokepoint is a strategic strait or canal which could be closed or blocked to stop sea traffic (especially oil).
A team of marine researchers, led by Alan Jamieson of Newcastle University, made the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Java Trench (also known as the Sunda Trench) – an arc-shaped, deep ocean trench some 3200 km long located in the eastern Indian Ocean, south and west of the islands of Sumatra and Java.
While the recommended maximum depth for conventional scuba diving is 130 feet, technical divers may work in the range of 170 feet to 350 feet, sometimes even deeper.
The Indian Ocean is named after India because of its strategic location at the head of the ocean from ancient times and its long coastline which is longer than any other country in the Indian Ocean rim.