A day of national mourning has been declared on the India Ocean island of Mauritius after 11 people died in severe floods.

11人因严重的洪水死亡，印度洋岛国毛里求斯宣布举行为期一天的全国哀悼活动。

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A Scottish botanist blessed with a strong and supportive wife, Kirk was the British representative on the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar from 1866 to 1886.

柯克是苏格兰植物学家，有福气地取了一个坚定不移地支持他工作的妻子。 从1866年到1886年，柯克是英国驻印度洋桑给巴尔岛上的代表。

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That's an island in the South Pacific Ocean.

那是南太平洋的一个岛屿。

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He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

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They would fly four thousand kilometers to tiny Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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The Chazy Reef on the island contains coral, like a reef in a warm, tropical ocean.

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Two vendors at the Colombo coconut market said that with imports about to enter the Indian Ocean island, prices were already beginning to fall.

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News of the currency changeover plans coincided with a visit to the Indian Ocean island by Horst Koehler, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

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In December 2001, a B-1 crashed while returning from a bombing run over Afghanistan to a British base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.

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