Most attention tends to focus on inhabitants of low-lying islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans the Maldives, Tuvalu and Kiribati, say and coastal plains, notably in Bangladesh.
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Only a handful of U.S. museums devote space to the cultures of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and they often scatter the works among different departments.
Thus it was a remarkable spectacle when, on Monday July 5th, Indonesians across the length and breadth of this huge archipelago of 17, 000 islands, strung between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, queued calmly to cast their votes in the country's first direct election for president (until now, presidents had been chosen by a national assembly).
The ten ASEAN countries, stretching across the Indian and Pacific Oceans, have a population of over 600 million and combined are the third largest economy in Asia.
ASEAN's founders dreamed that their organization would one day span the whole region, from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Red River delta to the rice padis of Java.
However, the weather department is still carefully monitoring the sea surface temperatures over the Pacific and Indian oceans, said L.S. Rathore, director general of the India Meteorological Department.
As an Officer of the U.S. Navy for thirty-six years, his initiatives contributed directly to the economic stability and humanitarian understanding in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.
The other systems have been set up in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the Caribbean.
The fish are found in shallow water and coral reefs in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
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Launched over a decade ago in the Caribbean, Sandwatch has today become an international activity involving islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Caribbean, as well as countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America.
Economists in Thailand suggest reviving plans for a gargantuan construction project digging a hole through the isthmus in southern Thailand (not quite pure Keynes: the hole would not be filled in, but form a canal tunnel linking the Pacific and Indian oceans).
This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.
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Analyses of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans show a significant warming trend in tropical areas of the Northern Hemisphere, close to what is known as the thermal equator.
Similar systems already exist for the Pacific and Indian oceans and for the Caribbean.
Similar systems are in operation in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean.
Hegemony in the Pacific and Indian Oceans seems unlikely.
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But China's recent claims over the mineral-rich South China, Yellow and East China seas and its aggressive patrols in vital sea lanes between the Pacific and Indian oceans have sent the not-at-all subtle message that it isn't willing to share power in its backyard.
The schooner has travelled 62, 000 miles across the Atlantic, Pacific, Antarctic and Indian oceans investigating the effects of global warming on biodiversity and marine life, particularly focusing on marine plankton.
The answer may lie in the Indian Ocean, which also influences monsoon patterns, rather than in the Pacific, and there is some evidence that the Indian Ocean was indeed cooler during the 18th-century drought.
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This was a round-the-world cruise taken by Craig Venter on his yacht, Sorcerer II, which studied the diversity of micro-organisms in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans.
The journey is expected to take the crew through the "Doldrums" -- equatorial regions in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans known for unpredictable weather patterns that include listless winds that can trap sailing vessels.
The Indian Room (952 S Pacific Ave, 310-514-3511) is another classic watering hole, complete with a friendly bartender who seems to have no problem keeping pace with her customers even if it means she might spill a cocktail every now and then or miss a glass with the soda sprayer.
Hence, in February 2013, four major events focusing on young people will be implemented by UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific region, in partnership with the Indonesian, Indian and Timorese governments.
' He described the source of the riches that funded the opulent dwellings of New Bedford, 'these brave houses and flowery gardens that came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
We believe that all small states of the Caribbean, Indian Ocean and South Pacific can now make some concrete provision against natural disaster to which global warming may sadly make them even more vulnerable.
After sampling waters from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans at all latitudes, they found that the amount of AAPB in the water is controlled mainly by the level of planktonic algae in the region, rather than by the amount of light.
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Sanny Jegillos, program coordinator for the UNDP's regional center in Bangkok, rates the Indian Ocean early tsunami warning systems as superior to those of the Pacific in terms of earthquake monitoring and detection.
But surface temperatures in all six of the ocean basins he examined (the north and south Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans) have increased by about half a degree Celsius.
Simulated tsunami exercises have been organized previously in the Pacific in 2008 and in the Indian Ocean in 2009.
This time, however, a total eclipse will be visible in a thin strip from Iran to the Pacific ocean, cutting through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
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