The Indian Pacific competes for space on the single track with trains that carry 80% of the freight between Australia's east and west coasts.

印第安大西洋铁路为唯一一条铁路线上的空间进行竞争。这条线路上的列车运载澳大利亚东部和西部沿海之间地区的80%货物。

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From coast to coast across some of Australia's most remote and uninhabited countryside, the Indian Pacific is named after the two oceans bookending the journey.

顾名思意，这趟列车往来于澳洲的东西两岸，穿梭于杳无人迹的偏远乡村。

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The Indian Pacific and its predecessors, such as the Tea and Sugar Train that took provisions to isolated outback communities, were once symbols of Australia's conquest of its vast distances.

印第安大西洋和它以前的列车——比如曾向与世隔绝的内陆地区运送物资的茶果铁路公司，都是澳大利亚曾经征服它广袤疆土的标志。

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He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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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.

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