In 1976, the Indian Ocean islands of Seychelles became an independent republic within the Commonwealth after 160 years of British rule.
MultiChoice is available in just under 50 countries on the continent and adjacent Indian Ocean islands, and CNN continues to provide our subscribers with cutting-edge and incisive news from around the world.
The snail once found on islands in the Pacific Ocean became wiped out after another mollusc was introduced in the 1970s.
Thai islands in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Thailand are home to some of the region's most spectacular beauty spots.
Marwell Zoo has become home to a further four species of Partula tree snail, which originate from islands in the Pacific Ocean and are extinct in the wild.
The British government trumped him by creating the world's biggest single marine reserve round the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean - all 545, 000 sq km of it.
When Neela travels to the mythical Lilliput-Blefuscu, an archipelago of islands in the Indian Ocean where a coup has occurred, Solanka follows her and finds himself caught up in dangerous events that are bizarrely of his own making.
He is thought to have headed home to the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean immediately after the attacks, but as FBI agents tried to trace him there, he boarded a plane to the Gulf and disappeared without trace.
We've been trying to trace the history of the idea of making the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and all the ocean around them a national monument, and we get as far back as 1999 at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Perhaps most important, though were five mummified Unangan hunter-gatherers from the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific ocean.
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Tagging studies show that the scalloped hammerhead gathers at fixed sites around islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during its long-distance migrations.
Also within the atoll-like reef system are picturesque islands that are mid-ocean pit stops for a variety of migrating seabirds, giving twitchers almost as much reason as divers to be excited about Apo Reef.
In December of 2010 Great Britain announced the largest marine protected reserve in the world, 55 islands scattered remotely in the British Indian Ocean Territory, and called the Chagos Archipelago.
Back in 1998, my parents had been anchored off that very seawall before heading south for Norfolk and the start of the Caribbean 1500, a rather laid back ocean race from the Chesapeake Bay to the Virgin Islands.
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Our children, Isabelle, Sophia, and Daniel, were creating islands and moats in the sand as the ocean slowly rose, sending a trail of water through their creations.
The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) in the Southern Ocean south-east of New Zealand.
The islands are isolated volcanic outcrops in the eastern Pacific Ocean, where the introduction of novel species quickly destabilises the archipelago's ecosystems.
Scientists say rising temperatures could lead to rising ocean levels, which would in turn swamp coastal areas and islands, wipe out species, create economic havoc and amplify the impact of natural disasters such as storms, fires and droughts.
Its breezy cosmopolitan capital, Papeete, sits on Tahiti's northeastern tip and is the gateway to a captivating world of indigenous culture that infuses a chain of islands spread across 5 million square kilometres of sparkling ocean between Australia and South America.
On a notoriously violent patch of the Atlantic Ocean north of Scotland and 160 kilometers west of the Shetland Islands, where winds howl at 80 kilometers an hour and waves can run 30 meters high, a brutish red vessel rolls in a mounting breeze.
Tropical Storm Florence strengthened a bit Saturday over the open Atlantic Ocean, its center about 515 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands as it headed toward the Leeward Islands.
Many researchers now believe that the first route followed was along the coast of the Indian Ocean and that water transportation was invented very early on to reach islands in Southeast Asia.
The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
The turquoise ocean hides a stunning underwater garden, and snorkelling the fringing reef around the islands is on a par with snorkelling the outer reef.
Pirates have caused havoc among ships traversing vast parts of the Indian Ocean, as far east as the Seychelles and as far south as the Comoro islands.
Further north along the southwestern coast are the Skelligs, two islands that poke dramatically skywards out of the flinty waters of the Atlantic Ocean, nearly 12km off the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry.
Analysis of the ocean currents shows that for the past weeks, the general flow around the Hawaiian Islands has been from the southwest, producing a front 300 miles to 400 miles (483 to 644 km) northwest of Midway that has kept the debris north of the islands.
Families were exiled from Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands, in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Indian Ocean airbase, and had to leave for Mauritius.
From here, you can gaze down at the ocean shifting through a paint-chart's worth of blues as the ship draws closer to the islands.
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