This is Indian Ocean topography showing the location of Mauritius as part of a chain of progressively older volcanoes extending from the presently active hot-spot of Réunion toward the 65-million ...

The Indian Ocean seafloor, mapped using Earth’s gravity. Africa is on the left, ... Well, for Pete’s sake. I originally wrote “topology” here, not “topography.” ...

The tsunami that ricocheted around the world following the Indian Ocean earthquake on 26 December 2004 left a puzzling pattern of waves in its wake. Beaches in Peru and Mexico, nearly 20,000 ...

The unique topography of the island also gives it an eerie, other-worldly feel. For various reasons, Socotra has remained largely untouched—its population is just around 50,000.